Plans for new Edinburgh schools are set to be significantly delayed or scaled-back to plug a hole in the council's finances, a report has revealed.
Rapidly rising construction costs have added a further £145m to the total required to press ahead with the city's 10-year school building programme, prompting officials to put ideas for possible savings to councillors.
These include a proposal to scrap plans for a new Balerno High School and retrofit the old building instead, which would save around £34m and be "less costly and more environmentally sustainable," according to a council report.
