Drama lessons are moved as a building is suspected to be made from the concrete causing concerns.
A senior school has taken a building out of use over concerns it is made from potentially unsafe concrete.due to risky reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete .
Pershore High School in Worcestershire said the temporary building, used for some drama lessons and costume storage, may be of RAAC construction. The school added it hoped a specialist survey on the building would take place over the next few weeks. "As a precaution we have taken these rooms out of use and will timetable drama lessons in a different location," executive head Phil Hanson said on the school's website.
The building in question is scheduled to be removed as part of the Pershore school's planned £22m rebuild and expansion project, he added.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme the government would "spend what it takes"
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