New Burgess Hill secondary school building, West Sussex property, Architect, English Cross Laminated Timber architecture
The Bedelands Academy, Burgess Hill secondary school
3 December 2022
Location: Burgess Hill Brookleigh development, West Sussex, south east England, UK
Design: Atkins and Faithful+Gould

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Latest designs for new £57m climate resilient West Sussex school released
The Bedelands Academy, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, UK
Atkins and Faithful+Gould (members of the SNC-Lavalin Group) along with framework partner Cundall have published the latest designs for a new school for West Sussex County Council (WSCC) – which aims to be the first in the county to achieve Passivhaus certification. The new school is the largest project to be commissioned under a pioneering multi-disciplinary consultant (MDC) partnership agreement, entered into by West Sussex County Council and Faithful+Gould in 2018.
The local authority is planning to build the new six form entry secondary school, with a total project budget of £57m, at Homes England?s Brookleigh development (formerly known as the Northern Arc) near Burgess Hill in Mid Sussex.
The University of Brighton Academies Trust has been appointed to run the new educational facility which will be part of an ?all-through? primary and secondary school, planned as part of the wider Burgess Hill Brookleigh development.
A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda ...