CALL: Malvern Hills College; Cllr Robin Lunn (left) and Cllr Richard Udall (right) LABOUR councillors are calling on the county council to step in and buy Malvern Hills College to prevent it from closing. The college is due to close in August after bosses said it was too expensive to keep open with many students moving to courses in other parts of the county. Malvern Hills College has now been listed as an asset of community value, through the work of the Malvern Hills College SOS Task Group, and Labour county councillors are now calling on Worcestershire County Council to use compulsory purchase powers to save it from closure.
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This, it is hoped, will preserve the site and its buildings for the future. With the application having been approved, the Malvern Hills College site has been added to the council s community assets register. Town Councillors Clive Hooper and Cynthia Palmer were instrumental in bringing this matter to the attention of the Town Council and also represent the Town Council on the task group. Cllr Hooper said: “I was very pleased to be able to get unanimous support from the Town Council for my proposal, which Cllr Palmer kindly seconded, to have Malvern Hills College registered as an Asset of Community Value.
OFFER: Cllr Beverley Nielsen with Roger Britton, WCF Trustee THE group trying to save Malvern Hills College has said it is ready to make a formal offer, with more than £850,000 raised. The Malvern Hills College SOS Task Group announced it has raised £850,000 for a formal offer to be made to Warwickshire Colleges Group for Malvern Hills College. This formal offer has been made by the stakeholders and member of the Task Group, Worcestershire Community Foundation. The SOS Task Group, formed by Cllr Tom Wells, has worked over the past two months to bring together different groups for a community option to the closure, which was announced by WCG at the end of 2020.