The cost of a new all-weather athletics track and artificial pitch at an East Renfrewshire school can now be covered after around £200,000 was secured.
East Renfrewshire’s cabinet has agreed to use an underspend in the education department’s budget to fill a funding shortfall for the project at Mearns Castle High School. Rising costs, related to covid, mean the development is set to cost £1.94m rather than the £1.73m originally budgeted.
Mark Ratter, the council’s director of education, said: “Unfortunately due to covid, the project, and the progress of that project, was delayed. The project has recently been tendered with the preferred bidder’s tender being higher than the budgeted amount.
