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This article is about Balmoral High School in Belfast, Northern Ireland. For other schools named Balmoral High, see Balmoral High School (disambiguation).
Coordinates: 54°33′32″N 5°59′58″W / 54.5588°N 5.9994°W Balmoral High School was a secondary school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was established by a merger of Deramore High School and Larkfield High School.[1] The school was managed by the Belfast Education and Library Board (BELB). The school opened in January 2002 and closed in August 2008, due to falling pupil numbers.[2] It had been built as an education 'pathfinder' for the Private Finance Initiative.[3]
The old Larkfield building was situated adjacent to the new building occupied by Balmoral. The PFI was structured so that the old school site and land was used to build a large housing development and building the new school next to this site.
The BELB are tied to a 25-year contract, which was inflation-proofed, and in 2006 the BELB paid more than £370,000 to use the school. Even discounting inflation, a minimum of £7.4m will have to be paid out over the remaining period of the contract, whether the school remains empty or not.[2] At present, their Regional Training Unit occupies part of the Balmoral building. The project was described, by the Belfast Telegraph, as "botched".[4]
References
- ^ "PFI school's out for the last time". The News Letter. 1 Published on Wednesday 18 June 2008. http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/pfi_school_s_out_for_the_last_time_1_1871158. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ a b "PFI school to cost £7.4m after closure". The Guardian. 23 March 2007. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/mar/23/schools.uk4. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ "Building for the Future". Northern Ireland Audit Office. 14 October 2004. http://www.niauditoffice.gov.uk/pubs/onepress.asp?arc=True&id=151&dm=0&dy=0. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ David Gordon (22 May 2007). "School gaffe: five-year wait". The Belfast Telegraph. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/school-gaffe-fiveyear-wait-13443734.html. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
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