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Pain in the class: Kingston's adult education on the move again

Surbiton.com: March 17, 2015 - 5:38pm

The borough’s adult education classes are due to be re-jigged for the third time in one year.

Adults taking educational courses could soon be studying at 46-50 Coombe Road in New Malden - a four-storey office block close to the railway station. The plans come just eight months after councillors ignored pleas of Surbiton residents in Browns Road, when they moved classes to the former care home building Newent House. Prior to this classes were held at the North Kingston Centre for more than 30 years, until all services were moved out to make way for the Kingston Academy, the borough’s first free secondary school.

The new plans will be discussed at the Children, Youth and Leisure Committee tonight. 

Plans to expand the King Charles Centre in Surbiton where other adult education courses run from, were also shelved after the new bigger site in New Malden was found. The new site has 18 car parking spaces in an underground car park and an additional 36 surface level car parking spaces may also be made available.

The placing of adult education classes has been up in the air for more than 15 months with disabled students at Orchard Hill College nearly forced out of their base in the Beaconsfield Centre, New Malden after just one year.

Plans to expand the King Charles Centre in Surbiton, where other adult education courses currently run from, were shelved after the new site in New Malden was found.

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