Renfrewshire Council has shared drone pictures giving you a different perspective on the new Paisley Grammar School Community Campus – and as you can see the new building is really coming together.
The new school is being built just off Renfrew Road, Paisley and is due to open by August 2026.
It will be a modern home for Paisley Grammar School, with new facilities for pupils and the wider community not possible in the existing building at Glasgow Road, Paisley:
• two full-size sports pitches (one 3G and one grass), plus outdoor learning and social spaces
• modern facilities for practical subjects including a 300-seat theatre, fitness suite, dance studio, maker space, teaching kitchens, drama studio and music suites
• facilities for the wider community, such as meeting rooms and flexible learning spaces
Work started in summer 2024, and as you can see, the steel frame of the building and much of the concrete is now there. Next steps are to make the building wind and watertight and then the contractors will fit out the inside during 2025.
The new campus is being built within a wider development to transform transport links in the north of Paisley, which will help create safer access to the school.
You can see the routes for some of these links in the pictures. They will include:
• a new east-west road, still to be built, which the entrance to the new school will be off. This road will run from a new junction with Renfrew Road (just south of the roundabout at McDonalds), along the edge of the West College Scotland site, and join up with Abercorn Street and Harbour Road;
• the new road will eventually lead to a new road bridge over the River Cart, giving pupils living on the other side of the river easier access to the new school
• an underpass under Renfrew Road (from behind M&S to the B&M car park). This will join the new walking/cycling route (which we’ve already built – you can see it here) running up behind the college and along the west side of the school site.
This route will eventually lead to Renfrew and beyond, to the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland, next to the airport
You can also see in the photos the former Chivas Brothers Scotch Whisky administration buildings – these will not be part of the new school, but Renfrewshire Council are currently marketing them to find a new owner and use.
The school was designed by Ryder Architecture; is being built by Morrison Construction and is supported by funding from the Scottish Government’s Learning Estate Improvement Programme.
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