Post-16 campus could be used by 1,200 a day
ESTIMATES suggest that up to 1,200 people a day could use the proposed new post-16 campus at the former St Peter Port School site in Les Ozouets.
That number includes 400 students at the Sixth Form Centre, 240 staff, and hundreds of apprentices and part-time adult learners who attend the Guernsey Institute.
The statistics have been released by Education, Sport & Culture in response to a series of written questions from Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez, the president of Environment & Infrastructure.
In reply to a question about parking spaces and transport arrangements, ESC revealed it would be carrying out further surveys and engagement before deciding on parking provision.
Andrea Dudley-Owen, the president of ESC, said that it was possible that the bus service could be improved, and active travel would be encouraged.
Changes to road layouts will also be considered.
‘Traffic counting as part of a traffic impact assessment will be undertaken in the autumn, having been delayed by lockdown and pandemic-related travel restriction, so that there is a firm evidence base from which to make recommendations for infrastructure changes if necessary.
‘Within the proposed budget, funds have been set aside should it prove necessary or desirable to improve the infrastructure around any of the sites proposed in the committee’s model to better facilitate access, with a particular emphasis on changes that promote active travel’, she said.
The former St Peter Port School will be demolished at the beginning of the construction programme, and approximately 320 students attending the College of Further Education there will be relocated, possibly to ‘temporary modular accommodation’ at the Coutanchez site.
A full options appraisal is planned and temporary classrooms could even be set up at Sir Charles Frossard House.
ESC has asserted that its model is not an untried concept, and that there are numerous examples of partnerships in the UK where education provision is shared across different settings, including
federations, trusts and multi-academy trusts.
The post-16 campus is regarded as the flagship of the model, and Deputy Dudley-Owen said in the future there needed to be a more flexible relationship between traditional A-levels and technical and vocational education.
‘This is precisely what our post-16 campus is designed to allow us to do.
‘It is intended to be the central hub for all post-16 education, training and skills development in the Bailiwick as we continue to promote and embed a culture of life-long learning.
‘It will facilitate a joint approach where all barriers are removed and where employers and the community benefit from a truly joined-up approach across the post-16 education sector, for the benefit of our economy.’
