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TOWN COLLEGE HOPING TO REPLACE ‘OUTDATED’ BUILDINGS WITH NEW FOUR-STOREY BLOCK

A COLLEGE is looking to demolish ‘outmoded’ buildings on its campus and replace them with a new fourstorey teaching block containing classrooms, a dining area and kitchen.

Greenhead sixth form college, situated on a six-acre campus off Greenhead Road just outside Huddersfield town centre, wants to replace 1960s buildings that have ‘reached the end of their life’ and which are ‘no longer fit for modern education purposes.’

They will be replaced ‘enhanced education facilities.’

Proposals brought before Kirklees Council’s Strategic Planning Committee this week involve part demolition and making good, the creation of a new four-storey teaching block, relocated car parking and site access

by arrangements, and the reconfiguration of sports provision.

Plans show the new building would be created over the college’s existing principal car park, adjacent to the south and east boundaries of the campus.

The four-storey flat-roofed block would provide 6,000sqm of teaching space.

Existing vehicle access would be converted to the primary pedestrian access while car parking would be re-located to the west of the site, which currently hosts a large multiuse games area.

A pavilion used for changing and storage would be demolished and an existing closed access from Greenhead Road would be reopened and enlarged and/or realigned to access the car park.

The committee noted the report, which will be brought back at a later date in the form of a formal planning application.