TWO schools in Radcliffe - Coney Green and Radcliffe High - are to be sold for £4 million-plus to raise money to build the town's new high school.
Bury Council has agreed to sell the two sites and earmark all the proceeds for the proposed Radcliffe Riverside High School.
Current regulations - which have been waived in this case - require 40 per cent of the proceeds into the council's pot for schools.
The 900-pupil school, to be built on the former East Lancs Paper Mill site, will cost £15 million. The council has been awarded £5 million from the Government towards it, with a further £2 million to come. But the rest must be found locally.
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