Artist impression of the design as viewed from the street. The plan also includes a new cafe area.(Image: aLL Design) Residents are fighting plans to build a “monstrous” student accommodation block in a small Cambridge park. People living near St Matthew’s Piece aren’t happy about the new proposal for a 113 room student housing block. […]
The brand-new High School Leckhampton will be Gloucestershire’s first carbon neutral school, helping Gloucestershire County Council achieve its carbon neutral ambitions for 2050. SoGlos gets an insight into the innovative plans from Evans Jones, the project’s lead planning consultant. In line with Gloucestershire’s aims to be carbon neutral by 2050, The High School Leckhampton is […]
Photo courtesy of Aberystwyth University Vectaire’s Microbox 125/2DC MEVs were chosen to ventilate the new, en-suite student rooms in the refurbished Grade 11 Listed Pantycelyn Hall of Residence at Aberystwyth University. This prestigious project required discreet, but effective ventilation (now even more essential to control the spread of COVID-19). The Microbox, provides this. It […]
Children could be in temporary classrooms for 104 weeks while asbestos is removed from a school in Bedworth. Asbestos needs to be removed from some classrooms in the Exhall Grange school building. So the school has applied to Warwickshire County Council for permission to have two temporary classrooms set-up on its car park for a […]
Business manager Mark Nicholds by one of the Bishop Luffa school buildings that needs replacing Residents in Chichester are being asked to share their views on a land swap proposal in a new survey. The idea would see the Bishop Luffa school site in Westgate exchanged for a new site within the Whitehouse Farm […]
Pictured cutting the first turf at the new Haverfordwest High VC School site is Cllr Guy Woodham, Cabinet Member for Education and Lifelong Learning. Construction has officially begun on Pembrokeshire County Council’s biggest construction project to date. A ‘Turf-Cutting’ ceremony was held on November 26, at the construction site for the new Haverfordwest High VC […]
Working on a brief to deliver a first-class facility for the pupils and teachers, Thorn Lighting has supplied both internal and external illumination for the £10 million education block that has revolutionised facilities at a Samuel Ward Academy in Suffolk. The luminaires were chosen to enhance the overall appearance of the state-of-the-art facility and create […]
An array of Forbo Flooring Systems products has been installed within the University of St Andrews’ newest student accommodation building, to help deliver a contemporary and high-end aesthetic that would enhance the students’ experience. The final design resulted in HLM Architects being commended in the 2019/20 Fly Forbo competition. Located within the University of St […]
Lache Primary School is full of praise for Craig Brown, Adam Brown and David Stevenson, of Brown & Sons Roofing Specialist. A CHESTER primary school is full of praise for three contractors who carried out much-needed repairs on the school building – for free. Everyone at Lache Primary School wishes to say a big […]
CALLS have been made for sprinklers to be compulsory in all new or refurbished schools. Swindon-based insurers Zurich Municipal have urged MPs to review the law – while people are asked to help get the issue debated in parliament. Figures obtained by the company showed firefighters from Dorset and Wiltshire were called to 66 fires […]