Plans to close two primary schools in Rhondda Cynon Taf and amalgamate them in a new £9m community school are set to take another step forward. The council’s cabinet will consider moving plans to join Cefn Primary School and Craig yr Hesg Primary School in Glyncoch to the next stage of consultation at its meeting on Monday, March 21.
The plans would see the closing of the two existing primary schools and the opening of a new, bigger community primary school to replace them. The next stage of the consultation process will be to issue a notice which will trigger the start of the objection period.
The new school would be funded by the council and Welsh Government via the Mutual Investment Model funding stream. This involves the private sector building and maintaining public assets and in return the council, supported by funding from the Welsh Government, will pay a fee to the private company which will cover the cost of construction, building maintenance and financing the project and at the end of the contract the asset goes back to the council.
