Learning spaces and environments

More than 1300 schools have put their hands up for airconditioning, but only 27 have received it.

Dr Vallance said it was assumed in the past libraries would not survive the rise of the internet.

“What people failed to realise is that libraries are fundamentally social places,” he said. “They are places where you meet people, you have conversations, where you’re not communicating electronically, but face-to-face.”

Schools will wait up to five years for their air conditioning, but P&Cs have been urged not to get impatient and install it themselves.