Families in the north of Newcastle have been dealt a major blow, after it emerged that a long-awaited new school will not open until 2025.
Education chiefs have revealed that a new school building for the Newcastle Great Park has been hit by another major setback – having already been delayed multiple times. It had originally been hoped that a permanent home for the Great Park Academy middle and secondary school would have opened in 2020, but the project has run into a series of difficulties.
The latest hold-up means that an increasing number of children will be learning in the school’s current temporary accommodation at the Gosforth Academy for years to come. Parents have been told that construction on the new site within the Great Park estate itself has been pushed back until autumn next year, with the building potentially opening in summer 2025, after a Government procurement process failed.
