Problems with Interserve-built school sees council shell out £1m on emergency classrooms

By Will Ing and Dave Rogers2019-04-25T05:00:00

Local authority chasing firm for damages – but contractor says: ‘It’s not our fault’

A row has broken out between Interserve and a West Midlands council over who is responsible for the closure of a school building which has seen the local authority shell out more than £1m on emergency classrooms since January.

Interserve, which yesterday lost its £736,000-a-year finance director Mark Whiteling after just 18 months in the role, completed a 28-classroom building called the Jubilee Block at Perryfields High School, a specialist maths and computing college, in Oldbury in 2012.

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