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Posted on April 20th, 2021
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Shirley D’Alwis, the first University Architect, died in harness. He was working day and night to complete the job entrusted to him – the preparation of the buildings he had designed and started constructing – for the university to be shifted to its intended site in Peradeniya. After a long and protracted battle of the sites” fought in the legislature and in the media, the State Council had finally decided in September 1938 that the proposed University of Ceylon was to be a unitary and residential university and that it should be sited in the land to be acquired from the New Peradeniya Estate, a tea and rubber plantation on the lower Hantana range on the banks of Mahaveli Ganga. It was a picturesque site with the tree clad hilly terrain sloping down from the Hantana range to the river bank.
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Multi-million Plymouth Civic Centre transformation should be done by 2024
The city council’s Cabinet has agreed revised financial plans for the scheme and to accept more than £12million Government funding
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The creation of a multi-million pound conference centre and linked events venue at the Civic Centre and Guildhall in Plymouth city centre has come a step closer.
The city council’s Cabinet has agreed revised financial plans for the scheme and to accept more than £12million Government funding.
The two projects, along with a separate £3million upgrade of the Civic Square, will help regenerate the city centre and support the post-Covid economic recovery.