Investment in a £7m leisure facility at Lincoln College
We are excited to announce bold plans for a major campus development! Spanning four spacious floors, the project will see the expansion and complete refurbishment of the existing Deans Building at the heart of our Lincoln campus. The resulting space, rich with high quality leisure facilities and equipment, will provide students with an outstanding learning experience.
The new development will feature a sports arena and a hydro facility, including a pool, steam rooms and sauna; a sports therapy suite and commercial hair and beauty salons. A large social area complete with juice bar and IT facilities will open onto an outdoor piazza. Other features include a commercial fitness suite, human performance laboratory, squash courts and dance/training studio. The centrepiece of the building will be a three-storey traversing harnessed climbing wall that will rise through the central space of the building. A double-height trampoline area will also feature.
The top floor will boast a glass atrium space containing an auditorium complete with hi-tech audio visual equipment. Throughout the building, the fundamentals of a contemporary teaching environment will feature, including modern classrooms, bespoke computer rooms and internet bays.
Providing a true ‘cross college’ facility, students on a range of programmes from sport to beauty therapy, will be taught and assessed in the space. Director of School, Martin Booth explained, “We have some of the most popular and well respected courses in the region in these subject areas. Our recent successful steps into offering Foundation Degrees in this area, and the societal and educational merging of the sport and wellbeing agendas mean this development is well-timed and will be of huge benefit to our growing number of students. They already enjoy a 99% pass rate across our programmes in this area and the new facilities will ensure that Lincoln College students continue to be especially prepared for progression onto university or into employment.
Those who will be taught in the building are not the only ones to benefit: students and staff across the college will be actively encouraged to make use of the impressive facilities as part of the College’s commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles.
The facility will also serve the wider local community. Lincoln College already enjoys strong partnerships will local sports clubs and hopes that the new investment will enable further links to made, providing a central hub for sports clubs regionally. Space and facilities will be open to hire, offering a professional environment to operate in.
Out of teaching hours, the leisure facilities will be at the disposal of the public. For an affordable fee, members of the public will have the opportunity to access the facilities.
We are now in the process of applying for planning permission, it is hoped that students enrolling on a college course from September 2012 will be able to take advantage of the facilities.
