WORK has begun on a £1.6m building project at a Rubery school, but the county council have had to defend the project against claims it will make flooding problems worse.
The new buildings will provide Holywell Primary School, in Gunner Lane, with new classrooms, practical areas and a library.
Bromsgrove's Conservative MP Julie Kirkbride welcomed the extension, but said mismanagement by the county council meant that there was no proper drainage work being carried.
She said: "Normally, the local councillor Peter McDonald would rightly be making a huge fuss about this. Why is he now silent?"
County councillor McDonald (Lab, Rubery) said far from mismanagement, the county was investing an additional £500,000.
He said: "The only financial crisis is that our MP cannot accept that money should be invested in Rubery."
A spokeswoman for Worcestershire County Council said a contract for the drainage work had been signed but that work could only begin when the first stage of building was complete at the end of next year.
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