600 more secondary schools to be remodelled under next three waves of the Building Schools for the Future programme

A further 600 schools within 50 local authorities will be remodelled in the next three waves of the £45bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

Some 15 local authorities have been selected to go forward from January 2007 with their school rebuilding projects in Wave Four: 10 are taking part in BSF for the first time, while the remaining five are from Waves One to Three and are embarking on their second phase of projects.

Wave Five will see 19 local authorities starting in September 2007: 10 of these are already in Waves One to Three. Another 16 councils (including two from Waves One to Three) will start on Wave Six projects from early 2008.

All of the projects could start earlier where local authorities can demonstrate their ability to deliver their rebuilding schemes. The chosen local authorities are:

Wave Four - new local authorities: Barking & Dagenham; Cambridgeshire; Coventry; Essex; Hertfordshire; Telford & Wrekin; Rochdale; Blackburn with Darwen; Oldham; Somerset.

Wave Four - repeat local authorities: Bristol; Haringey; Kent; Manchester; Sheffield.

Wave Five - new local authorities: Derby City; Camden; St Helens; Blackpool; Hartlepool; Ealing; Wolverhampton; Wandsworth; Kensington & Chelsea.

Wave Five - repeat local authorities: Bradford; Birmingham; Greenwich; Lambeth; Liverpool; Newham; Nottingham City; Sandwell; Tower Hamlets; Waltham Forest.

Wave Six - new local authorities: Doncaster; NE Lincolnshire; Nottinghamshire; Bournemouth with Poole; Kirklees; Hillingdon; Hammersmith & Fulham; Redcar & Cleveland; Halton; Portsmouth; Suffolk; Bedforshire; Stockton on Tees.

Wave Six - repeat local authorities: Durham; Luton.

The Derbyshire and Southwark projects due for Waves Four to Six have become extended Wave Three projects.

The Building Schools for the Future programme aims to rebuild or upgrade every secondary school in England over a 15-year period.