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The Council’s Economic Development Directorate is dealing with an
enquiry from the Cardiff Sixth Form College (CSFC) who are seeking to
expand in the city and to consolidate from a number of locations in to one
new purpose built site.
6. The CSFC began as a small private tutorial centre in 2004 and has
grown into one of the most successful independent schools in the UK
with circa 300 students and 100 teaching and administration staff. The
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College has received numerous accreditations and awards and is
currently ranked as the top independent sixth form college in the UK by
The Times and Telegraph newspapers. The College has held charitable
status since its inception and has grown exponentially over the past 10
years. This rapid growth has led to the opening of a second centre in
Oxford through a joint collaboration with Oxford International College.
7. Due to its success and growing demand for places the College is
considering city centre sites in both Cardiff and Oxford for its expansion.
Following a detailed site search the College has approached the Council
regarding the availability of the whole of the Howard Gardens site.
8. The Council had originally intended to only dispose of the
decommissioned Bowling Green site. However the opportunity to
accommodate this prestige educational facility has led the Council to
consider disposing of the whole of the Howard Gardens site. It is
proposed that the disposal to Card
To enable this disposal the College would be required to re-provision a
brand new Play Centre of at least the same specification to the existing
Adamsdown Play Centre with the same size of outdoor space and there
may also be potential to consider broader community provision in the
area as part of the development. The development scheme will also
need to retain as much open space as possible and it is thought that this
could be achieved through integrating the scheme with the proposed
student accommodation development on the adjacent site.
10. The Adamsdown Play Centre is currently a Council run facility and
consists of a building and an external play area. In 2014/15 the centre
benefitted from a £223,000 capital refurbishment grant, funded by the
Welsh Government to meet the local deficit in Flying Start childcare
places. This new Flying Start facility currently provides 32 FTE places for
eligible children resident in the Adamsdown 01, 02 and Splott 06 Lower
Super Output Areas and forms part of a 2 year delivery contract with
‘Little Angels Adamsdown’. The Play Centre site was identified in the
2015/16 Budget Report as a site that will continue to operate until the
end of the 2015/16 with the expectation that it would be transferred by
the year end to the community.
The Council’s Economic Development Directorate is dealing with an
enquiry from the Cardiff Sixth Form College (CSFC) who are seeking to
expand in the city and to consolidate from a number of locations in to one
new purpose built site.
6. The CSFC began as a small private tutorial centre in 2004 and has
grown into one of the most successful independent schools in the UK
with circa 300 students and 100 teaching and administration staff. The
Page 2 of 5
College has received numerous accreditations and awards and is
currently ranked as the top independent sixth form college in the UK by
The Times and Telegraph newspapers. The College has held charitable
status since its inception and has grown exponentially over the past 10
years. This rapid growth has led to the opening of a second centre in
Oxford through a joint collaboration with Oxford International College.
7. Due to its success and growing demand for places the College is
considering city centre sites in both Cardiff and Oxford for its expansion.
Following a detailed site search the College has approached the Council
regarding the availability of the whole of the Howard Gardens site.
8. The Council had originally intended to only dispose of the
decommissioned Bowling Green site. However the opportunity to
accommodate this prestige educational facility has led the Council to
consider disposing of the whole of the Howard Gardens site. It is
proposed that the disposal to Card
To enable this disposal the College would be required to re-provision a
brand new Play Centre of at least the same specification to the existing
Adamsdown Play Centre with the same size of outdoor space and there
may also be potential to consider broader community provision in the
area as part of the development. The development scheme will also
need to retain as much open space as possible and it is thought that this
could be achieved through integrating the scheme with the proposed
student accommodation development on the adjacent site.
10. The Adamsdown Play Centre is currently a Council run facility and
consists of a building and an external play area. In 2014/15 the centre
benefitted from a £223,000 capital refurbishment grant, funded by the
Welsh Government to meet the local deficit in Flying Start childcare
places. This new Flying Start facility currently provides 32 FTE places for
eligible children resident in the Adamsdown 01, 02 and Splott 06 Lower
Super Output Areas and forms part of a 2 year delivery contract with
‘Little Angels Adamsdown’. The Play Centre site was identified in the
2015/16 Budget Report as a site that will continue to operate until the
end of the 2015/16 with the expectation that it would be transferred by
the year end to the community.