A CLEARER picture of the future of La Mare de Carteret and Les Beaucamps schools will emerge at the end of the summer. The Education Department is working on the next stages of its development programme.
‘In the last Budget we were granted funds to continue planning, which means looking at the options for Les Beaucamps and La Mare de Carteret,’ said minister Martin Ozanne.
Costings of the options for rebuilding Les Beaucamps were being looked at first, he said.
‘That’s being done now. There are different ways to construct a building and different positions on the site. That is also part of looking at what options we have for La Mare de Carteret, but that’s more complicated because there is the primary and the secondary school.
‘You can’t develop it all in one stage - you have to allow a school to continue functioning while the redevelopment takes place.’
Treasury and Resources has recently done a staff-level walk around at La Mare ahead of looking at maintenance requirements.
The work on the schools has always been subject to the funding available to the States, Deputy Ozanne added.
‘They need to know the costs of all the options. One is to deal with Les Beaucamps all in one project, or separate it into two builds,’ he said.
‘There are advantages in doing it one way or another. We just have to wait until all the options are before us with the costings.’
He said that that would be by the end of the summer.
‘Then we will sit down with Treasury and assess where to take it from there. At some stage we will need to approach the States in conjunction with the Treasury Department. Things aren’t on hold, they are progressing as far as looking at the various cost options.’A CLEARER picture of the future of La Mare de Carteret and Les Beaucamps schools will emerge at the end of the summer.
The Education Department is working on the next stages of its development programme.
‘In the last Budget we were granted funds to continue planning, which means looking at the options for Les Beaucamps and La Mare de Carteret,’ said minister Martin Ozanne.
Costings of the options for rebuilding Les Beaucamps were being looked at first, he said.
‘That’s being done now. There are different ways to construct a building and different positions on the site. That is also part of looking at what options we have for La Mare de Carteret, but that’s more complicated because there is the primary and the secondary school.
‘You can’t develop it all in one stage - you have to allow a school to continue functioning while the redevelopment takes place.’
Treasury and Resources has recently done a staff-level walk around at La Mare ahead of looking at maintenance requirements.
The work on the schools has always been subject to the funding available to the States, Deputy Ozanne added.
‘They need to know the costs of all the options. One is to deal with Les Beaucamps all in one project, or separate it into two builds,’ he said.
‘There are advantages in doing it one way or another. We just have to wait until all the options are before us with the costings.’
He said that that would be by the end of the summer.
‘Then we will sit down with Treasury and assess where to take it from there. At some stage we will need to approach the States in conjunction with the Treasury Department. Things aren’t on hold, they are progressing as far as looking at the various cost options.’
Article posted on 15th May, 2007 - 12.00am
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