Facelift for temporary classrooms

London schools are having to “make do and mend” their temporary classrooms after a fund to demolish the crumbling buildings was axed.

Newham council is in talks with AU Studio and Haptic Architects on sprucing up portable buildings after Education Secretary Michael Gove cancelled the Building Schools for the Future fund.

Stephen Timms, the Labour MP for East Ham, told architects’ newspaper Building Design: “It is tragic that our council is having to resort to this.”