Balmuildy Primary School rebuild

Balmuildy Primary School is being replaced with a brand new school that will now include an Early Years Centre.

Work is set to being in August 2025 and it is forecast that the new school will open in spring 2027 with the old building being demolished shortly afterwards.

This page will keep you up to date with the progress of the project.

During the construction of the new school, arrangements are in place to ensure that pupils, staff and visitors to the school can move around safely. Before the start of the school term in August 2025, families were sent a letter outlining the following arrangements for both pedestrians and drivers:

The school site has been split with heras fencing initially, to segregate the school from the construction site. Soon, the heras fencing will be replaced with solid hoarding, creating a solid demarcation between the construction site (highlighted in blue) and the existing school. 

The school will operate as normal with a few changes to how everyone manoeuvres around the site.

There will be one pedestrian entrance/exit and one vehicular entrance/exit only. All pedestrians will enter via the newly formed entrance and segregated tarmac pathway (marked in red). Primary 1-4 will cross the driveway at crossing point 1; primary 1-2 will enter the school via their classrooms and primary 3-4 will enter via the gym hall. Primary 5-7 will use the crossing point 2 and will line up as normal in the playground and enter through the rear door of the tower block.

School visitors will also cross the driveway at crossing point 2 and enter the school via the main entrance.

Only authorised vehicles may enter the school grounds, out with the restricted times ONLY and park in the carpark to the north of the site. Likewise, all Facilities Management/catering deliveries will continue as normal and arrive to site out with the restricted delivery times. The driveway vehicle gate will close each day to traffic at 8.30am.

No cars must park anywhere other than the designated carpark to ensure the main driveway is accessible and clear and visible to all pedestrians 

When exiting the building, the entrance route must be followed in reverse. Please do not walk on the driveway (marked in purple).

Enabling works will be carried out in and around the school site from Monday 14 July for about four weeks, finished before the school reopens mid-August. The enabling works include:

• The diversion of telecoms infrastructure within the school site 
• Formation of a new construction access off Stirling Drive, outside the school site
• Construction of new drainage connections to the south west of the site on Stirling Drive
• Erection of temporary heras fencing to support the formation of the new access and tarmac repairs.

In February 2022 the Council agreed to build a new Balmuildy Primary School and Early Years Centre in Bishopbriggs. However, due to the affordability of the project, in August 2024, the recommendation was to pause the project and cease all related project activities. 

At the special meeting of the Council on Thursday 6 March 2025, the Council instructed officers to re-establish the project team to deliver a new Balmuildy Primary School and Early Years facility as part of its 10 Year Capital Investment Plan.

On Thursday 19 June 2025, the Council gave approval to Officers to enter into a construction contract and ancillary agreements for the development of the project.

The aims of this project are:

• To create a modern primary school to replace the existing Balmuildy Primary School, based on a pupil roll of 462 (to match existing)
• To create an additional Early Years Centre within the new building for 60 pupils
• To construct a new tandem build school
• To demolish the existing school
• To minimise the carbon impact of the development across the full project lifecycle.

Due to the size of the site area at Balmuildy, the Planning Application was considered a Major Planning Application, meaning additional public consultation was required in advance of the application submission.

Two public events were held; the first of these took place on 24 May 2023 and the second on 21 June 2023. The sessions were held in support of the planning application, providing an overview of the design intention for the project. Comments from attendees were considered by the design team prior to the submission of the planning application. 

The planning application was submitted and approved by the Planning Board on 28 March 2024.