News: Plans approved for RCAT restaurant redevelopment
Plans have been approved for the refurbishment and extension of the student-run restaurant at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology's (RCAT's) town centre campus.
Staffed by students, RCAT's Wharncliffe Restaurant is primarily a training restaurant and is operated as a professional and commercial business, reflecting industrial standards.
The redevelopment will see the small scale demolition of the restaurant frontage onto Percy Street and a larger extension creating a new restaurant all on one level allowing more flexibility for bar, restaurant, coffee bar, banqueting and conference type uses. It is part of an overall £2.4m redevelopment programme at the town centre campus.
Behind the scenes, all the kitchens will be enhanced with additional industry standard equipment. The developments will enable the industry-professional tutors to further enhance the experience of the college's catering and hospitality students, many of whom cooked and served food to Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Royal at the Olympics last summer.
The college offers a wide range of hospitality courses from a Level 1 Diploma in Professional Cookery all the way to a Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality, Supervision and Leadership, catering to all students’ previous experience and intended career path.
Gill Alton, principal and chief executive at the college, welcomed the developments. She said: "We are delighted to be able to invest in state of the art facilities which underpin the excellent training offered at Rotherham College. It is important that students have an opportunity to work with industry standard facilities and resources."
Catering and Hospitality students will start preparing for the restaurant's re-opening when they start their courses in the autumn.
A second project will see the removal of a mezzanine in the engineering block and the creation of a new "Engineering Centre of Excellence" through a comprehensive refurbishment.
Piecemeal redevelopment is taking place after planning permission was secured for a £70m redevelopment of the town centre campus in January 2009 but the funding was cut by the coalition government after a review of the Learning & Skills Council's Building Colleges of the Future programme.
New science laboratories, hair, nail and beauty salons, theatre workshops and media make-up suites, opened last autumn following a £3.2m refurbishment programme.
This in turn followed on from the £7m Wentworth Building that opened in 2011.
Rotherham College website
Staffed by students, RCAT's Wharncliffe Restaurant is primarily a training restaurant and is operated as a professional and commercial business, reflecting industrial standards.
The redevelopment will see the small scale demolition of the restaurant frontage onto Percy Street and a larger extension creating a new restaurant all on one level allowing more flexibility for bar, restaurant, coffee bar, banqueting and conference type uses. It is part of an overall £2.4m redevelopment programme at the town centre campus.
Behind the scenes, all the kitchens will be enhanced with additional industry standard equipment. The developments will enable the industry-professional tutors to further enhance the experience of the college's catering and hospitality students, many of whom cooked and served food to Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Royal at the Olympics last summer.
The college offers a wide range of hospitality courses from a Level 1 Diploma in Professional Cookery all the way to a Level 3 Diploma in Hospitality, Supervision and Leadership, catering to all students’ previous experience and intended career path.
Gill Alton, principal and chief executive at the college, welcomed the developments. She said: "We are delighted to be able to invest in state of the art facilities which underpin the excellent training offered at Rotherham College. It is important that students have an opportunity to work with industry standard facilities and resources."
Catering and Hospitality students will start preparing for the restaurant's re-opening when they start their courses in the autumn.
A second project will see the removal of a mezzanine in the engineering block and the creation of a new "Engineering Centre of Excellence" through a comprehensive refurbishment.
Piecemeal redevelopment is taking place after planning permission was secured for a £70m redevelopment of the town centre campus in January 2009 but the funding was cut by the coalition government after a review of the Learning & Skills Council's Building Colleges of the Future programme.
New science laboratories, hair, nail and beauty salons, theatre workshops and media make-up suites, opened last autumn following a £3.2m refurbishment programme.
This in turn followed on from the £7m Wentworth Building that opened in 2011.
Rotherham College website
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