Rock Townsend are delighted that the proposal for the new campus in High Wycombe town centre for the Buckinghamshire College Group received unanimous approval at planning committee today.
The proposal will transform the college’s estate by consolidating 3 outlying campuses to 1 new city centre campus comprising a 6,800m2 new corner building housing a variety of standard and specialist learning and teaching environments, together with an adjacent building of 1700m2 providing vocational specialist teaching including Automotive Engineering and Construction.
The design puts the student at the heart of the experience by providing exceptional learning spaces, new catering provision, a wide variety of informal social learning spaces and a focus on ensuring wellbeing is enhanced through a focus on sustainability, prioritising visual connections to the landscape, optimising natural daylight, providing a rich variety of flexible spaces and volumes, all to the DfE latest FE Output Specification and cost.
The proposal seeks to enhance the urban landscape on an important corner site and is the result of positive engagement with Buckinghamshire Council’s Planning Growth and Sustainability team who were keen that the new campus acts as a catalyst for the regeneration of the urban block.
The proposal is a result of close collaboration and lots of hard work with John McGrath and the client team at BCG, PMc, Faithful and Gould, Arup, SWH, Elementa Consulting, Smith Jenkins, Wynne Williams Associates, Ion acoustics, Waterslade, and Ecology by design.
