School buildings

The Building Development Team

The Building Development Team are responsible for:

Management of the Education Department's capital programme for buildings and sites;
Co-ordinating meetings of the Capital Strategy Group and securing Cabinet agreement to the capital programme, following the Capital Strategy Group’s consideration;
Planning and delivering the annual capital programme for all schools, through a budget consisting of DfES formula allocations and the Council’s allocation for education capital;
Ensure, in partnership with schools, that net capacity, condition, suitability and energy assessment data is updated and fed into the asset management plan data;
Preparing and obtaining agreement to the Local Policy Statement on AMP roles, responsibilities and priorities
Developing policies, priorities and action plans as part of its statutory role in supplying school places, creating specialist units etc,
To prepare bids to central government and to record and monitor financial transactions with regard to various funding streams;
To progress the development of an accessibility strategy, to provide relevant training opportunities and to manage the Access Initiative grant;
Reimbursement of dual use expenditure to schools.
To monitor, support and report on the implementation of the primary schools PFI project and ensure that monthly reports from the contractor are appropriately followed up in line with agreed procedures.

The Building Development Team can be contacted on 020 8891 7563 or by e-mailing: buildingdevelopment@richmond.gov.uk