Colchester Centre for Health and Care – Colchester Institute
Categories
- Capital Investment - Essex, Southend & Thurrock, More than £2m, LGF1
Approval Status
Fully Approved
Delivery Status
LGF Project Delivered
Project Completion Date
Spring 2020
The Centre will address the need to improve workforce skills in the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector, in particular addressing the mismatch between the number of young people entering the sector and the high number of job vacancies.
The project will:
- include a rooftop extension to the existing South Wing Building at Colchester Campus;
- Incorporate innovative teaching facilities across three settings including care, clinical and wellbeing;
- Provide realistic working environments, enabling innovative co-delivery teaching methods in Care and Assisted Living.
Capital Programme delivery update
Take a look at our update on the delivery of the Local Growth Fund (LGF) and Growing Places Fund (GPF) capital programmes.
£579m of investment to East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock
In total the SELEP Growth Deal with Government has brought £579m of investment to East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock. Over the lifetime of the Growth Deal (2015-2021) we aim to deliver 78,000 jobs and 29,000 homes across the SELEP area, with the Deal set to attract a further £960m of investment into the South East over the six year period.