We are delighted with our new building, it completes the improvement programme that has been taking place for a couple of years. The children absolutely love the modern facilities and can’t wait to be in the new classrooms and use the new library and multi-use games area.

We are immensely proud that the borough of Rochdale is leading the way in this national programme and Littleborough Community Primary School is the first net zero school to be completed as part of the rebuilding programme. What’s most important is the new environment provides our children with the best possible environment for learning and it is also a real asset to the local community. We were delighted to secure the funding for Littleborough Primary to be rebuilt, it’s a really exciting time for the school community. I’m really pleased to see sustainability at the forefront of the building’s design and operation and the commitment Wates is making to sustainable building methods during construction.

Littleborough represents a step change in how schools are built, designed to not only provide brilliant, state-of-the-art learning facilities for pupils, but for the long-term benefit of the wider environment. We’ve been a partner to the DfE for years and it was an honour to be chosen to deliver this pioneering project. It’s benefited from the latest evolution of our Adapt system, while our experience using MMC [Modern Methods of Construction] to find sustainability solutions - for both public and private builds - has helped us deliver the DfE’s NZCiO goal. I congratulate all our teams on making this happen and look forward to our next completion.

Responding to one of the greatest ongoing challenges of our generation is the drive towards true zero carbon. We recognise the responsibility architects have and Ellis Williams is at the forefront of driving change and delivering truly sustainable solutions. Littleborough Community Primary School is net zero in operation and the first school to be built to these standards in the North West.

We’re thrilled to be celebrating the opening of the new net zero building at Littleborough Primary, a £10m School Rebuilding Project that started in Sept 2021 and will mean 14 new classrooms, a library, a new sports hall and multi-use games area for the children and families in this area. This is the first entirely new building to have been completed and opened as part of the Government’s Schools Rebuilding Programme, which will see 500 schools across the country benefit from new and renovated energy efficient school buildings that local communities can be proud of.