Sandbach School building with RAAC set to open by term's end

Sandbach school in Cheshire has been using a marque for more than a year while the building is out of useA school head said she expected a dining hall found to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete to reopen by the end of term.

Sandbach School in Cheshire discovered RAAC in the building more than 12 months ago during work to repair the roof.Headteacher Sarah Burns said the school had received funding from the government after the RAAC was spotted."I feel very fortunate that it's one of my smaller buildings." Work started in July to improve the building at Sandbach School. It is estimated to finish by the end of September.The government has published anMs Burns said the rest of the school site had passed checks for RAAC after a survey.

"We've been really lucky it hasn't affected us, we haven't had the panic this summer that some other schools have had," she said.

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