A new school building for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Tameside will cost nearly £10m more and open a year later than planned.
In the summer of 2021 the borough’s cabinet signed off on proposals to relocate and expand Hawthorns School from Audenshaw to a new site at Longdendale Playing Fields, in Mottram in Longdendale.
The project, which was budgeted at £13m, was granted planning approval in December with the aim of opening the new building by September this year, at which point the ‘dated’ Lumb Lane site would close.
