Morgan Sindall’s £32m SEND school expansion: design and delivery notes for engineers
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Morgan Sindall Construction has begun a £32m expansion of Foxwood Academy with a new two-storey SEND secondary school, Foxwood 2, on the fire-damaged former Bramcote Park School site in Nottinghamshire. The Noviun Architects-designed facility, procured via the SCAPE Construction framework and project managed by Gleeds for The White Hills Park Trust, will provide capacity for an additional 150 pupils aged 11–18. The scheme includes a separate adulthood preparation building for life-skills training, plus a gym and café accessible to both students and the public.
Technical Brief
- £32m capex is being delivered via Morgan Sindall Construction’s Midlands business unit under SCAPE.
- Works repurpose the fire-damaged former Bramcote Park School brownfield site, derelict since September 2021.
- Noviun Architects lead building design, with Gleeds providing project and cost management for The White Hills Park Trust.
- Two-storey configuration concentrates teaching accommodation, reducing footprint and potential groundworks on the constrained existing campus.
- Separate adulthood preparation block implies distinct structural and services zoning from the main secondary teaching building.
- Public-access gym and café introduce mixed-use loading, access, safeguarding and security interfaces within the school site.
Our Take
Morgan Sindall Construction’s work at Foxwood Academy in Nottinghamshire sits alongside its recently completed Glenwood Rise SEND sixth form in Essex, signalling that the contractor is building a strong niche in complex SEND education projects across multiple English regions.
Within our 911-piece Infrastructure set, Morgan Sindall appears frequently in school and community asset work, and this Bramcote scheme reinforces its positioning as a go‑to framework contractor for local authorities using routes such as SCAPE Construction and similar regional frameworks.
The combination of a post‑fire replacement context at Bramcote and a relatively modest two‑storey form suggests the design team (Noviun Architects and Gleeds) is likely to prioritise robust fire engineering and phased occupation strategies, which can influence how future refurbishments are procured across The White Hills Park Trust estate.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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