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Ask submits plans for Tameside ‘Knowledge Mill’

"Manchester-based Ask Developments has submitted plans to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council for a new building for Tameside College at St Petersfield in Ashton-under-Lyne.

It will provide the college with a Knowledge Mill – an enterprise and training resource offering business courses where people and companies can develop their ideas.

Growing start-up companies would then have the chance to expand and take space within a proposed business centre on Block K of the St Petersfield scheme.

When complete, the 9,245 sq ft Knowledge Mill would complete the circus area of the masterplan. Designed by Aedas Architects, the building will cover three floors and will provide teaching spaces, staff offices and a café for the general public, college staff and students.

The scheme is being delivered through a public/private sector partnership, with £14.5m of Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), HCA and ERDF money already committed to the 13 acre site."

For further information contact Simon Binns: sbinns@crain.com