Tower Block

Revealed

At the end of May, Pat Jones, Deputy CEO for the Group was joined by representatives from Bedford Borough Council, Bedford Town Deal Board and ASHE (contractors) to celebrate the unveiling of the new look Tower Block.

Bedford College’s 1959 Tower Block is being transformed into a £12.5m state-ofthe-art, energy-efficient Health, Science and Digital Skills Centre as one of seven major Bedford Town Deal projects, with the development benefiting from a £3m boost from the government-funded scheme.

A number of spaces within the Health, Science and Digital Skills Centre are being upgraded as part of the refurbishment, including labs and IT suites. The improvements will open up the St Mary’s Gardens area and allow easy access to Riverside Bedford and the rest of Bedford town centre and allow us to welcome an additional 250 full-time education students a year.

A video showing the Tower Block from various angles now that the scaffolding has started to be removed has now been released. You can view this on our website here.