WORK has started on a new multi-million pound autism unit at a Blackburn school.
The site at Newfield School is being prepared this week.
The £4.3 million single-storey specialist unit will create 60 places for children on the autistic spectrum with 10 classrooms.
It aims to tackle a shortfall in the council’s provision for children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome.
A spokesman for the Old Bank Lane school said: “This week the big fences have gone up and the diggers have moved on to the land next door to start work on our new autism building.
“We are now seeing the first real signs of work taking place to prepare the land and start the building process.”
The site used to house the Crosshill Specialist School which moved to Blackburn Central High School in Haslingden Road in 2012.
Planners approved the new build in2015.
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