A school building project at Bathampton has won a major green award.
The project for the construction of a new 30-pupil reception year classroom designed and overseen by Bath and North East Somerset Council won the award for the quality of its building design.
The Green Apple Environment Award is part of a national campaign to find Britain's greenest companies, councils and communities and saw B&NES competing against more than 500 other nominations. The award was presented to the council at a reception ceremony in the House of Commons.
Councillor Dine Romero (Lib Dem, Southdown), the council's cabinet member for early years, children and youth, said: "Bathampton is one of our most recent improvements to school buildings in the district. The council has worked hard to develop a project that will benefit pupils, teachers, and the community for many, many years.
"Everyone is delighted that the quality of the project has been recognised both nationally and regionally by these prestigious awards judged by industry experts."
The awards began in 1994 and have become established as the country's major accolades for green endeavours.
Judges were drawn from the Environment Agency, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, the Chartered Institution for Wastes Management and other independent bodies.
School chair of governors Linda Fursland said: "We are all thrilled to have a wonderful new building with more space for children to experience different types of learning. When you walk in the room you can instantly see so many interesting things our children can do. Our new classroom is a really child-friendly environment."
The project will now be included in The Green Book, the leading international work of reference on environmental best practice, so that other schools around the world can follow its example.
