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Foyle and Londonderry College has completed the purchase of land at Clooney as the site for the new College. The design phase is well advanced and preliminary investigative work has already been completed in association with local regeneration company, ILEX.
Chair of Governors, Robin Young, said,
“This acquisition will now clear the way for site works to commence. We have almost completed the initial design phase and the exciting results of that innovative design can be viewed on the College website.
Foyle College has delivered quality education for almost four hundred years and as we approach that anniversary, how fitting it is that an integrated campus will be created to continue that vision, started by Merchant Taylor, Mathias Springham, all those years ago.”
Foyle has received over £14 million of funding from Department of Education for its land purchase in the Waterside.
A formal agreement has also been signed between Foyle and Londonderry College and the University of Ulster, outlining the future transfer of lands between the school and the Magee Campus. When the school moves to its new site at the Clooney Base – expected to be within the next three years – a substantial area of land will become available for regeneration on the city side. The understanding signed by the school and the university gives details of when and how a major portion of the land will be acquired by the university to facilitate the expansion of student numbers in the city.
Headmaster, Jack Magill, said,
“Everyone in Foyle has supported the university’s plans for the expansion of the Magee Campus for many years. We all know it is key to the future economic wellbeing of the city, and the Foyle Governors have always seen the university as the preferred inheritor of our land as it keeps it in the education sector. This tacit understanding between us has now been given a shape and a timescale. I look forward to seeing the area revitalised by the university creating a broader campus with new departments and new architecture.
In Foyle we have admired the university’s redevelopment of the school’s former buildings at Lawrence Hill and feel sure that the new buildings envisaged will enhance the environment of this important area of the city”.