Case study: New Line Learning

New Line Learning began as a hard federation of three schools under the direction of one governing body. With approximately 2,800 pupils, the federation is dedicated to a teaching model that shows pupils how to work independently using project based learning techniques with intensive use of Technology. This is based on work done earlier at Hugh Christie School in Tonbridge.

Two of the Schools have now been merged on to one site in order to release capital funds towards reconstruction. Clarson Goff’s initial role was to help find the building concept and form, and accommodation schedule to meet the educational model, to manage the team to successfully obtain outline planning permission for change of use of the site to be disposed of, and to manage the project to merge the two schools in a mixture of existing and temporary accommodation.

The Schools have successfully sort Academy status. This led to a £65m rebuilding programme utilising a design/build contractor from PfS’s Academies framework. Clarson Goff is acting as the Local Authority Project Manager during the procurement stage, and the programme now includes three further Academies with a total capital cost of £125m.