WORK is under way which will put a Dudley school in the running for top class sporting facilities.
Staff and students at The Holly Hall Academy are set to get a new £1.6m sports hall next year after the first soil was cut to begin construction on July 22.
The new centre at the Scotts Green Close campus will feature a hall large enough for four badminton courts, a dance studio, a basketball court and space for netball and hand ball courts.
A new fitness suite will be installed alongside changing room facilities.
Graham Lloyd, principal at Holly Hall academy, said: “We are absolutely thrilled. Our current indoor PE facilities are very poor for an academy of this size, so we are excited to welcome the new sports facilities.
"Sport is important to us here and our staff and students deserve the best."
The project could only begin after the school raised an extra £45,000 to pay for work to fill-in old mine workings which run under the site.
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