NEW COLLEGE CAMPUS TO BOOST TOWN CENTRE REGENERATION

In an exciting new development for the town, St Helens College has been successful in a bid to support a £60 million project to redevelop its Town Centre Campus.

The College’s aging Town Centre Campus will be demolished to make way for a new state of the art learning complex and the existing Smith Kline Beecham buildings are to be refurbished.

To preserve its listed status, the famous ‘clocktower’ building, home of the St Helens Business School, will remain unscathed as an integral part of the Campus, and continue to be one of the town’s leading landmarks.

The new facility, which will be part funded by the Learning Skills Council, will include:-

• a spacious reception area accessible to visitors to the town centre
• light and airy study and dining areas
• safe and secure ‘user friendly’ environments 
• landscaped ‘social gathering’ areas.

The environmentally friendly new build will also look to incorporate innovative, energy saving, sustainable technologies, through passive rather than engineered solutions.

Demolition work on the new development is currently underway. Building work is scheduled to commence in January 2008, with the project being completed by 2011. The development will be undertaken in stages in order to avoid disruption to students, staff and local businesses.

There has been a positive response from College and community leaders, click this link to read some of the comments: Redevelopment Quotes