PEMBROKESHIRE County Council has won a prestigious design award for its work on Cleddau Reach School.

The Council’s in-house design team has been awarded a CLAW (Consortium of Local Authorities in Wales) Commendation Award for Llangwm primary school, which opened its doors last year.

“We’re delighted and really pleased that our in-house design team has won this award,” said Council Leader, Councillor Jamie Adams.

“They have shown over the years how good they are at developing high quality schemes and this new award is further confirmation of this. We’re very proud of them.”

Cleddau Reach Head teacher Nick Groves said the new school building and site had had a positive impact on both the learning and well-being of the children and staff.

“It is a pleasure to work and learn in such a modern, bright and well equipped school,” he said.

Cleddau Reach School opened in April 2013. The brand new £4.5 million building was created following the merger of Llangwm and Burton primary schools and caters for 220 pupils aged three to 11.

It was funded by Pembrokeshire County Council and the Welsh Government and built by construction firm Dawnus Holdings Ltd, while Evan Prichard Contractors Ltd carried out the road infrastructure work to the site.

Designed by Pembrokeshire’s in-house team to a BREEAM excellent standard, the building is highly sustainable featuring solar hot water panels, sprinklers and rainwater harvesting.

Its environmentally friendly features were singled out by CLAW’s independent panel of judges when Pembrokeshire’s in-house team were presented with their award in Swansea last week.

The annual CLAW awards attract over 40 entries from local authorities across Wales every year with submissions ranging from schools and visitor centres to public conveniences and velodromes.