Kingston Maurward College
KINGSTON Maurward College is considering a massive ground source heat pump system over 25 hectares of the site.
The college says that the £2.06 million scheme is part of its long-term proposals to decarbonise the estate and, if allowed, will mean it can remove the existing oil and gas-based heating system from the Grade 1 listed main building and other sites around the campus.
All of the four fields which are likely to be used will have the system installed using 1-metre wide trenches which will be laid with pipework and then returned to agricultural use.
They border the main house, visitor centre and the Stinsford Farm complex where a new teaching and business centre is planned.