Plans for a multi-million pound upgrade of Dumfries Academy are up in the air due to sky-rocketing construction costs – and major doubts over funding.
Steel prices have risen by 60 per cent since 2020, while mechanical, electrical and plumbing prices have more than doubled in some cases.
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s property services chiefs this week admitted that the revised costs put forward by the main contractor are “beyond the affordability cap in place for the project”.
