EXPANSION plans for Kingston Maurward College have been lodged with Dorset Council. It is the first time councillors and the public will be able to see the proposals in full. The university hub and rural business application is part of the college s plan to diversify on the campus – a process which had already included the creation of the Dorset Studio School and a £3.3m animal sciences building. Proposals for new £4.5m building, which will go alongside the Agri-Tech building, close to Stinsford Farmhouse, will be part funded by the Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). The planning application says the centre will serve as a university centre and rural hub, providing around 875sq m of teaching, office and collaborative space with the aim of enhancing the opportunities for young people in areas of poor social mobility, to enable growth in the small rural businesses predominant in the area, and provide a focus for partner universities to come together to utilis