Cornwall county council has given the go-ahead to a £3.1 million scheme to improve sports and arts facilities in six primary schools.

Final approval is now awaited from Sport England but confidence is high. But while a new Four Lanes School, an amalgamation of Nine Maidens and Carnkie schools will benefit, two schools in Falmouth lose out.

The authority was allocated the £3.1 million under the Space for Sports and the Arts Initiative, run by Sport England, to upgrade sports and arts facilities in the county's primary schools last year.

Originally the council had hoped to upgrade facilities in eight primary schools but increases in construction costs and changes to the designs required by Sport England meant that the grant would only fund six schemes. Members were told that Sport England were unable to find any additional grant .

Following a meeting between the Director of Sport England, South West, the Director of Education, Arts and Libraries Jonathan Harris and Doris Ansari, the Executive Member for Lifelong Learning, it was agreed that only six schemes could be funded. It was proposed, therefore, that the schemes for Grampound with Creed, Nanpean and Four Lanes and other schools should go ahead.

Mrs Ansari said she was disappointed that the funding was not enough to proceed with the schemes at Beacon Junior and Infant schools, Falmouth.

"We tried our best to obtain additional funding to enable all eight schemes to go ahead, but this was not successful," she said.

At Four Lanes there will be enlargement of the planned hall in the new school. Grampound with Creed will see a replacement of the existing village hall next to the school.