well, after my first attempt at night into this place just didnt feel right, scotty and a few others offered to come give me a hand to come and help to document the site. and seeing as i had never been out on a proper explore before i thought it would be rude to turn down the offer. i'll start with some history on the place first...
Throughout Cornwall there were 58,000 learners.
Why a new College was needed in St Austell ?
There was a need to find new sites in order to release some poor quality buildings, and that policy was to extend and provide the opportunity for education beyond the age of 16.
There were many benefits of acquiring the site at John Keay House, namely:-
• it would be a single site
• more than adequate car parking
• it would combine all existing sites into one
• it was local
The move would mean a three to four phased development -
Phase 1 - the construction of a new Performing Arts building
Phases 2 - 4 - the relocation of Trevarthian Road site
Costs:-
The original budget was for £14.5M but extra costs were incurred for the removal of asbestos amounting to £6M. The total budget of £20.5M was funded by Combined University of Cornwall, The College, SWRDA and the LSC.
The existing buildings to be got rid of through a development partnership were:-
Sedgemoor - sold in October 2004 to Broadley Park Properties. The building now houses the Primary Care Trust.
Lewis Way and Trevarthian Road - sold to Westbury Homes and plans to develop with mixed usage such as residential and commercial.
The future needs of the College:-
• to resolve the Skills Centre at the back of John Keay House - need to source the funding for £2.4M.
• a new Business Suite.
i cant find anything on google after a brief search to find out when the college first opened but as far as i can see, the Trevarthian site had fully swapped over to the new site on tregonissey road in october 2006, making the trevarthian site no longer used.
more info etc found on this pdf link (i havent read most of it yet but some of it looked like it was a good link)
http://www.restormel.gov.uk/media/adobe/m/f/TR_Brief_pp006.pdf
if anyone knows any more about the college feel free to add the info in. most of the searches on google i done just brought up the new college site details.
so, anyway, we all met up and got on with having a look around the site. i think everyone had agreed on the fact the building was in a pretty bad way to look at. (i think i even got told a few times they understand why we didnt feel right there at night) the site seemed a lot bigger than i first thought. knowing they were going to be knocking it down i thought they would have knocked down more than they actually had!
everyone seemed a good laugh and pretty easy to get on with. even if i did feel a little short compared to a certain tall member off here
after we finished at the site, it was lunch time. so we popped into town for some lunch, even if there was a bit of a wait in the cafe it was nice to be able to sit and chat in such a relaxed manor
there was even another place of interest found on the walk back to the cars, it would be good to get in there sometime. my mrs says its been boarded up for years and years and that she even remembers it being boarded up from about 10 years ago when they used to bunk off school and "hang out" on the steps of the place
so now for the pics from the college (excuse the pics though, im not that great and still shooting in auto mode lol) i have one more but DD got in the shot so not sure if he will want it posted or not.
all comments welcome, good or bad look forward to seeing some of the others pictures as theyre a bit better than me to say the least
Throughout Cornwall there were 58,000 learners.
Why a new College was needed in St Austell ?
There was a need to find new sites in order to release some poor quality buildings, and that policy was to extend and provide the opportunity for education beyond the age of 16.
There were many benefits of acquiring the site at John Keay House, namely:-
• it would be a single site
• more than adequate car parking
• it would combine all existing sites into one
• it was local
The move would mean a three to four phased development -
Phase 1 - the construction of a new Performing Arts building
Phases 2 - 4 - the relocation of Trevarthian Road site
Costs:-
The original budget was for £14.5M but extra costs were incurred for the removal of asbestos amounting to £6M. The total budget of £20.5M was funded by Combined University of Cornwall, The College, SWRDA and the LSC.
The existing buildings to be got rid of through a development partnership were:-
Sedgemoor - sold in October 2004 to Broadley Park Properties. The building now houses the Primary Care Trust.
Lewis Way and Trevarthian Road - sold to Westbury Homes and plans to develop with mixed usage such as residential and commercial.
The future needs of the College:-
• to resolve the Skills Centre at the back of John Keay House - need to source the funding for £2.4M.
• a new Business Suite.
i cant find anything on google after a brief search to find out when the college first opened but as far as i can see, the Trevarthian site had fully swapped over to the new site on tregonissey road in october 2006, making the trevarthian site no longer used.
more info etc found on this pdf link (i havent read most of it yet but some of it looked like it was a good link)
http://www.restormel.gov.uk/media/adobe/m/f/TR_Brief_pp006.pdf
if anyone knows any more about the college feel free to add the info in. most of the searches on google i done just brought up the new college site details.
so, anyway, we all met up and got on with having a look around the site. i think everyone had agreed on the fact the building was in a pretty bad way to look at. (i think i even got told a few times they understand why we didnt feel right there at night
) the site seemed a lot bigger than i first thought. knowing they were going to be knocking it down i thought they would have knocked down more than they actually had! everyone seemed a good laugh and pretty easy to get on with. even if i did feel a little short compared to a certain tall member off here
after we finished at the site, it was lunch time. so we popped into town for some lunch, even if there was a bit of a wait in the cafe it was nice to be able to sit and chat in such a relaxed manor
there was even another place of interest found on the walk back to the cars, it would be good to get in there sometime. my mrs says its been boarded up for years and years and that she even remembers it being boarded up from about 10 years ago when they used to bunk off school and "hang out" on the steps of the place
so now for the pics from the college
(excuse the pics though, im not that great and still shooting in auto mode lol) i have one more but DD got in the shot so not sure if he will want it posted or not.
all comments welcome, good or bad
look forward to seeing some of the others pictures as theyre a bit better than me to say the least 
