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PLANS for a new multi-million pound rehab facility on the site of a former private school in Boscombe have been submitted. Having bought St Thomas Garnet’s School last year, AECC University College has applied for permission to replace its sports hall with the new centre. Professor Lesley Haig, its vice-chancellor, said the multi-disciplinary facility would be “state-of-the-art” and boost healthcare provision in the county. The university submitted its planning application to BCP Council at the end of last month, proposing its new “integrated rehabilitation centre” replace the existing sports hall. It bought St Thomas Garnet’s School in Parkwood Road after the private school closed last year and has since moved some of its teaching and services to the new site.
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
Bournemouth Town Hall. THE budget drawn up by BCP Council has passed its penultimate hurdle after being given unanimous approval by its cabinet on Wednesday. Conservative councillors said the proposals would be “transformative” and that it would keep money in people’s pockets. It will now go before the full council later this month where it is expected that opposition groups will challenge the budget by putting forward alternatives. Unveiling his budget last month, council leader Drew Mellor said it allowed “significant” investment in services while also increasing council tax by a sum, he said, was one of the lowest in the country.