Some primary schools in Peterborough are set to enjoy a makeover over the summer holiday, it has been reported, which will include a
sustainable energy biomass boiler.
More than £2 million will be spent on the improvements, Peterborough Today has noted.
John Clare Primary School in Helpston will receive £246,000 from the council's children's services department to replace its existing oil-fired boiler, central heating and cold and hot water systems with a wood pellet biomass boiler.
It will become the first school in the area to have an eco-friendly biomass boiler installed, the newspaper said.
"We are pleased to be working with children's services and the schools to deliver this programme of refurbishments over the summer holiday," Peterborough city council's head of property design and maintenance Robert Griggs told the publication.
St Osmund's Middle School in the south-west recently received a £63,000 grant to buy and install a new biomass boiler under the South West Bioheat Programme.
Headmaster Ron Jenkinson told the Dorset Echo that he hoped the new
sustainable energy boiler would lower the school's running costs.
