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Land Securities Trillium has been appointed to transform schools in Kent after signing a contract on the first phase of Kent’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

The contract between Kent County Council (KCC) and its preferred bidder, Land Securities Trillium (LST), Building Schools for the Future Investments (BSFI), and Northgate Information Solutions (NIS) will kickstart a programme to improve school infrastructure and information communications technology.

Under the contract KCC will now form a Local Education Partnership (LEP) with LST, NE and BSFI to manage the delivery of the programme which will help transform secondary schools in the Gravesham, Swale and Thanet districts of Kent by 2014, and lead on the development of proposals for a further 25 schools in those districts. The contract has an estimated capital spend of almost £600 million, and builds on LST’s success across the UK where it now owns or manages 197 schools with 174,000 pupils.

It forms the first phase of Kent’s overall £1.8 billion BSF programme, which plans to rebuild or renew its secondary schools over a period of 10 to 15 years. It is a major milestone in Kent’s drive to combine significant infrastructure investment with a bold educational vision to transform teaching and learning and locate schools at the heart of the community.

Approximately £200 million will be invested in transforming and maintaining the first 10 schools. Three schools will be delivered through PFI, with LST contributing £6 million of capital by the end of the PFI construction phase.

source : Land Securities