Planning Approval Granted for Rutherford College Adaptive Re-use Project

The strategic project brief is for the south wing of Rutherford College to be adapted and refurbished in order to consolidate student services (presently in different locations around the campus) within one centrally-situated and accessible building.

Central to the accommodation will be a new ‘hub’, being a front-facing space to facilitate and promote communication between the University and its students. The hub is to be accessed from a new entrance from the south-west corner of the south wing. The development of the brief for this space has been deferred to stage 4 at client request.

Student services teams have been allocated to the existing floors by the University’s estates department as follows:

– Level 01 Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Unit
– Level 02 Student hub College and Community Life (CCL)
– Level 03 Careers and Employability Service (CES)
– Level 04 Information Services

The project is currently working towards the completion of Stage 4.