page_title: Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College
section_title: Recent building developments
hierarchical_section_title: Bramcote Hills Sport and Community College / Recent building developments
caption_attribution_description: English: Bramcote Hills Upper School, showing demolished science block, 6th form block, tower block canteen and half demolished school hall. Foreground right music and art block (now temp science block) still remains, not to be demolitshed.
context_page_description: Bramcote Hills Sports and Community College was a mixed state school in Nottinghamshire. It taught children from 11 to 18. It is located in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire. It was part of the White Hills Park Federation with Executive Head Teacher, Kevin Dean, the School Leader, Mal Kerr.
  Bramcote Hills Sports and Community College was formally closed by Nottinghamshire County Council on 31 August 2009. At the same time the council agreed from 1 September 2009, to enlarge Alderman White School and Language College, to incorporate the remaining site of Bramcote Hills School, following demolition of the unsafe upper school, this making Alderman White a split-site school.
context_section_description: In 2004, plans were submitted for the building of a new technology and art block situated next to the main school site. This was subject to many objections due to the poor design aesthetics, impact on the local landscape, and the fact the school is in the Green Belt. The plans subsequently never got off the drawing board.
  In a £500,000 re-development of the 6th form accommodation in 2008  to create a new open plan modern learning environment for post 16 education, including internet cafe and new common room alongside refurbished class rooms with interactive white boards. The new extension was nominated by Broxtowe Borough Council – both for Design and Standard of Construction, in February 2009, however, the nomination could not be founded due to the construction, leading to the findings of structural problems in the existing building.
  While completing these works, and re-roofing the building it was discovered to have brittle concrete, the problem was caused by high alumina cement or Calcium aluminate cements, which was used in the construction of buildings in the Nottinghamshire county between the 1950s and 1970s. Subsequently, the refurbished building was never opened to students and the entire building was condemned for use due to its instability. Years 7&8 were moved to the two other schools in the federation as they had spare capacity, Years 9-13 remained in the safe buildings at Bramcote Hills.
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  Following a Nottinghamshire County Council Report on 14 May 2009 it was revealed there are further problems with the 'safe' buildings currently being used. The Design and Technology block was closed, as the building could not safely support the concrete roof. The work to rectify this problem was completed in the summer of 2009 by re-enforcing the windows with steel, and repairing foundations to reinstate the full block. 
  In the Summer of 2009 demolition of the unsafe blocks in the upper school was completed, demolishing the science block, 3 storey tower block, and the 6th form block, leaving the gym, changing rooms, barn, and the art and music block, built by more recent construction. Prompt demolition was favoured to reduce the running costs of empty buildings.
caption: Demolition work on Upper school, view into the hall, and where tower block and kitchen and canteen, science block was to the left. To the right the Art and Music block remains, Art rooms now being used as the science rooms with additional portacabin class rooms
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