DETAILED plans revealing how much money will be spent building each of the city's five new academy schools won't be published until the autumn.

The outline business case for Stoke-on-Trent City Council's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme was initially due to be submitted to a Government agency in February. But it has now been delayed and is unlikely to be sent off to Partnerships for Schools until late September.

The BSF programme will see more than £250 million spent on transforming school buildings across the city. But families still don't know how much money will be earmarked for each of the school sites. So far, just Birches Head High and Sandon Business and Enterprise College, in Meir, have received a share of the investment.

The plans include replacing seven other high schools – Berry Hill, Mitchell, Edensor, St Peter's, James Brindley, Brownhills, Blurton – with five academies. Thistley Hough High, in Penkhull, and St Margaret Ward Catholic School and Arts College, in Tunstall, will also be rebuilt.

The remaining secondary schools are likely to be refurbished and some cash will also go towards revamping or rebuilding the city's special schools.

Stoke-on-Trent's business case will also outline how schools will be grouped into different building phases and will contain other information about raising educational standards.

Closure notices for the schools being replaced with academies were published earlier this month. A final decision on their future will be made in June.

That will then pave the way for the city council to announce the construction firms which have won contracts to build the new schools.

The first academy is likely to open in 2011, although it would initially operate from existing buildings until the brand new one is ready.