Dan Whelan
The Preston-based contractor has been selected to deliver the £6m project, which includes 27,000 sq ft of teaching space.
In addition, the four-storey extension will feature a mock ward area to support Burnley College’s health and nursing course offers.
A separate two-storey block is to provide a 10,000 sq ft sports centre comprising a gym, running track, therapy suite, dance studio and three classrooms.
Last August it was reported that Kier Construction had been appointed to deliver the project having been procured through the Procure North West framework.
However, the college has since retendered the scheme, appointing John Turner Construction Group to deliver the extension.
BBC News
By Rhys Williams
media captionMany areas of the sophisticated town were devastated by raids in the Three Nights Blitz of 1941
Eighty years after the German Air Force destroyed the thriving town of Swansea, the legacy of disjointed attempts to rebuild its centre is still being felt.
The local authority had ambitious and forward-thinking plans to restore Swansea to its pre-war glory.
But its plans were blocked by a central government with a superior attitude, historian Dr Dinah Evans said.
The words of Llanelli MP Jim Griffiths in the Western Mail following the Blitz summed up the ambition of the authorities for Swansea to regain its former glory as a commercial centre.
The road proposals are a farce. It will not relieve the situation on that part of the A5036 known as Princess Way – the people in those environs already suffer badly from illegal levels of pollution and that will only get worse. Proposals to destroy valuable green space in such a highly built up and densely populated area go against the government’s green policies. Yet again the north of England is being disadvantaged because the government won’t spend money on finding the best solution for the whole area that would included a reduction in overly high air pollution levels over the whole area. Even Highways England admit that if this road goes ahead it will reduce the air quality for the people whose homes surround the Park (estimated at 90,000 people) and they conveniently forget about the number of householders who have been told their homes will be lost because of the proposed road.
Bridgend council drops plans to build Welsh primary school in Brackla
A site investigation revealed the land at the preferred site for the new school is unsuitable.
07:50, 12 FEB 2021
Thousands of people were against the council s plan to build a school on Brackla Hill. (Image: Alan Drury)
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Asda, Princess Way in Burnley A WOMAN in her 20s was threatened by men with machetes and suffered minor injuries in a supermarket car park robbery. The incident took place at around 8pm on January 15 at the Asda store on Princess Way in Burnley. The supermarket worker had been walking from the petrol station to the store when she was approached by two men in the car park. The men had machetes and demanded cash from the victim, a woman in her 20s, before grabbing her handbag and making off in a silver Kia Picanto. The woman suffered minor injuries in the incident.