College and Technology Park plans

West Nottinghamshire College announces its plans to bring all its facilities onto one campus, allowing it to provide state-of-the-art facilities for existing students and to increase the number of student places. The Learning & Skills Council gives the college ‘in-principle’ approval to £96m funding for the project. The development will be on a gateway site where the A60 from Nottingham into Mansfield crosses with the MARR. The vacated site where the college currently stands is to be sold off and redeveloped for housing that will complement the surrounding residential community.

To add value to these proposals, Nottinghamshire County Council announces its ambition for a ‘technology park’, providing much-needed, high-quality accommodation for small businesses in creative industries and the knowledge economy. The council and college set out to develop the sites in tandem, in order to bring together the worlds of education and employment and to achieve two distinct developments of low environmental impact, which will complement each other. The technology park will provide 1,900sqm of accommodation for students coming out of the college wanting to set up their own businesses and for established businesses in research and development, prestige manufacturing, creative industries and professional services.