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The government failed to carry out detailed surveys that would reveal problems such as asbestos and unstable concrete before buying up sites for its flagship free schools, an Observer investigation has found.

Gove made much of the fact that ministers would be tearing up planning laws to enable groups of teachers, parents and charities to set up schools in old offices, shops and houses.

However, documents seen by the Observer reveal that in some cases there was such haste to open large numbers of these new schools that the government agency tasked with buying the sites purchased “unsuitable” disused buildings without first undertaking the detailed surveys that experts insist are essential.

One of the most egregious examples is the purchase of a derelict Royal Mail sorting office to house England’s largest free school, Northampton International Academy.

In another case, the government’s Education Funding Agency (EFA)bought a former air traffic control training site next to Bournemouth airport to house Parkfield free school, on the basis of a four-page vendor’s report.

The Observer has seen two light-touch “overview surveys” commissioned before the EFA purchased two new free school buildings in London, which flagged concrete as a risk.

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