Shrewsbury Sixth Form College to gain £1m classrooms
Wednesday 3rd August 2011, 11:29AM BST.
Portable temporary classrooms at Shropshire’s biggest sixth form college will be replaced with a new building under a £1 million scheme, it has been revealed.
Members of Shrewsbury Town Council were given a sneak preview of the plans by officials at Shrewsbury Sixth Form College at a planning meeting. The plans have not yet been submitted to Shropshire Council for consideration.
The new building would house the geography, environmental science and geology departments and would provide four classrooms, a science lab, staff room and common room.
Peter Nutting, leader of the town council, said councillors had been impressed with the plans which have been worked up by Baart Harries Newall Chartered Architects.
In May the college was allocated just more than £1 million from the Sixth Form College Building Condition Improvement Fund.
A total of £57 million has been distributed nationally to sixth form colleges in order to improve the worst aspects of accommodation within the sector.
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Good news. Rather my old school stay in education than fall into the hands of that cabal of frequent urban despoilers and funny aproned chancers ‘the developers’.
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