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PPP schools "little more than a roof" |
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
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In a telling article in the Herald of 8 December, architect Alan Dunlop
makes a number of interesting statements. "We are building
schools for children we wouldn't use as adults… fees are cut to the
bone so any idea of developing design is a non-starter.
That means you get sub-standard buildings which are little more than a
roof over your heads. It is designed for the accountant and
the bean counter and in 20 years time these buildings are likely to
become as bad as the schools they replaced because the materials are
not good enough and the design is poor."
The SNP has regularly criticised the PPP/PFI secondary schools
project as not being value for money. Now it is interesting
to note criticism from an architect's viewpoint as well.
The Labour Group in Glasgow has said it will not use PPP for primary
schools. Effectively that is an admission that they got it
wrong with the secondary schools.
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