Cheadle College has revealed ‘exciting’ plans for a £27m revamp of its site - including a new purpose-built college building and proposals for dozens of new homes. Bosses say the scheme would provide high quality facilities for students and staff at the Cheadle Road campus, in Cheadle Hulme, with those currently on offer now ‘dated and in need of refurbishment’
The new three-storey college - boasting two teaching wings either side of a central ‘heartspace’ - would be built to the north of the site, in an area currently used for informal football, according to an online consultation. Once the new college is up and running, students would transfer across, allowing the existing college to then be demolished, making way for up to 63 new family homes to be built in its place.
The online consultation says the current building is too large for the college’s requirements, as well as being ‘highly inefficient in terms of sustainability and energy’. “The facilities are now dated and in need of refurbishment to bring the building up to modern standards," it reads.
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"The teaching spaces require modernisation and reconfiguration to meet current future teaching needs. This cannot viably and practically be achieved with the ageing current buildings and therefore there is an exciting opportunity to build a new college with high quality facilities that can meet the needs of each department, greatly improving the quality of educational facilities for students.”
