Education minister announces school building work projects: here is the full list

Minister Paul Givan announced four “new build major works”, and nine “school enhancement projects” have been allowed to proceed.

The four major works projects are:

• Enniskillen Royal Grammar School;

• Priory Integrated College, Holywood, Co Down;

• Dunclug College, Ballymena; and

• And St Malachy’s Primary School, Armagh.

The department said: “The total capital investment on these projects is just over £130m across the coming four-year period.”

Meanwhile nine schools will see smaller-scale work begin, such as refurbishment or extension works.

These are:

• Lurgan College;

• Greenhaw Primary School, Londonderry city;

• Antrim Primary School;

• Fairview Primary School, Ballyclare;

• Ballyclare Primary School;

• Chapel Road Primary School, Londonderry city;

• Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, north Belfast;

• St Bride’s Primary School, south Belfast; and

• And St Mary’s Primary School, Newtownbutler, south Fermanagh.

The department said: “The total capital investment on these projects is just over £50m across the coming three-year period.”

In a statement, Mr Givan said: “I have today agreed to release a small number of major works and school enhancement projects to construction stage.

“Many of these projects have been in planning for a significant number of years, serving schools that are in exceptionally poor condition that have seen little-or-no investment and now urgently require replacement buildings.

"Whilst I continue to work to secure a capital budget settlement that can deliver the investment required for our school estate, it is clear that these schemes cannot continue to be held back.”

He made the announcement while visiting Fairview Primary School.

It followed an announcement about work to draw up new special school blueprints a day earlier.