Pendle Vale College, Nelson, Lancashire
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Pendle Vale College, Nelson
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Pendle Vale College, Nelson, Lancashire
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Pendle Vale College, Nelson, Lancashire
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Pendle Vale College, Nelson, Lancashire
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Shuttleworth College, Padiham, Lancashire
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Shuttleworth College, Padiham, Lancashire
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Shuttleworth College, Padiham, Lancashire
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Shuttleworth College, Padiham, Lancashire
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Shuttleworth College, Padiham, Lancashire
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The facts
Client: Lancashire County Council
Location: Lancashire (North West
England)
Services: Educational, Partnering,
Architectural and Engineering
Sector: Education
Contract Type: PFI
Project Value: £300m
Start/Completion: Phase 1 completed, Phase 2
and 3 on site
The project
Lancashire’s £300m BSF (Building Schools for the Future)
programme - the first major wave of schools to be built in the UK
under BSF - covers a total of 18 education and community projects,
including 13 new schools catering for almost 10,000 students across
ten sites.
Capit Symonds are providing educational, partnering,
architectural and engineering services on a number of the projects
together with a number of other services on the programme including
landscape design, acoustics, fire and disability access
consultancy.
The first phase of these projects, including two secondary
schools and a sixth form college, are now operational at three
sites:
Nelson: The £29m Pendle Vale College and Pendle
Vale High School site in Nelson brings together two schools under
one roof with the aim of achieving greater integration between the
two. The sloping site has been used to create a new local landmark
with a building that rises in tiers to four storeys and is capped
by a sweeping roofline. Sports pitches and indoor sports resources
are all built to Sports England standards to support the school's
aims to achieve specialist sports college status.
Burnley: The £31m Burnley Campus is the biggest
of the three sites and contains schools for both sixth form and
primary students; a 50-place nursery and children's centre; a
library and faith centre; all-weather sports pitches; fitness
centre; climbing wall; sports hall; and hydrotherapy pool.
Padiham: The £20m
Shuttleworth College in Padiham features an entrance area dominated
by a dramatic floor-to-ceiling atrium that echoes the designs of
modern office buildings. Facilities include a dance studio, sports
hall, fitness room, tennis courts, all weather sports pitches, a
café and faith centre.
Capita Symonds provided lead consultant,
education services, cost management, structural engineering,
DDA, fire and acoustics services while our partnership with Salford
City Council - Urban Vision - provided landscaping services on all
schemes. Capita Architecture provided architectural services on
Nelson and Padiham schemes.
The second and third phases are currently on site and include
one of the first Academies - Accrington - to be developed through
the Local Education Partnership (LEP) model.
Awards
- PfS Excellence in BSF Awards 2009 Winner:
Education for All Award: Lancashire County Council for Pendle Vale
College and Pendle High School
- PfS Excellence in BSF Awards 2009
Winner: Community Hub Award: Catalyst Lend Lease
for Burnley Campus, Lancashire