{"id":106074,"date":"2022-02-18T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=106074"},"modified":"2022-02-18T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:41:31","slug":"bolton-green-skills-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/bolton-green-skills-centre\/106074\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformational plans announced for Bolton green skills centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Work to transform a Bolton retail park into a green skills centre could begin this summer, following the release of redevelopment plans<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenworksproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenworks<\/a> site is located on Trinity Retail Park just off the A666 (St Peter\u2019s Way). The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boltonathome.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bolton at Home<\/a> project is delivered in partnership with Bolton charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanoutreach.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Urban Outreach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolton green <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/sustainable-construction-skills-centre\/102937\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skills centre will provide essential training<\/a> on green technology for retrofit to businesses across the Greater Manchester region. This will contribute to the overall energy efficiency of the company and improve its chances of getting low <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/industrial-decarbonisation-contract\/105796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon contracts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once up and running, the Bolton green skills centre will also offer workspaces, meeting rooms and training centres for low carbon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/free-grant-and-support-scheme-to-help-sme-construction-businesses-to-innovate\/104420\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SMEs<\/a>. It hopes to support low carbon companies in their infancy to grow and achieve success.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolton facility aims to push for a sustainable net-zero carbon future whilst providing essential support and learning for the low carbon construction and energy sectors.<\/p>\n<h3>Planning proposals<\/h3>\n<p>The planning application submitted to Bolton Council outlines the initial work to fit out classrooms, training areas, work benches and offices inside the main Greenworks learning unit. Two floors of storage space will be allocated to\u00a0Urban Outreach\u2019s food bank with additional floorspace for a modern waiting room, reception and office facilities for the charity.<\/p>\n<p>The Greenworks exterior will also be improved. For example, planning covers a new featured entrance to the Greenworks building and a living wall made up of plants.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase of planning will consider sustainability options such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/solar-panels-schools-england\/95864\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solar panels<\/a><\/li>\n<li>wind turbines<\/li>\n<li>rainwater harvesting<\/li>\n<li>electric vehicle charging sites<\/li>\n<li>a modular training house for tradespeople<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Helping the local community<\/h3>\n<p>Urban Outreach invested in Greenworks last year and so also wants to use the Bolton green skills centre for food storage and distribution. This will include growing food, food recycling and hydroponics \u2013 all part of its mission to reduce food poverty in Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>As a not-for-profit enterprise, any surplus will be reinvested back into local community such as helping people into employment.<\/p>\n<p>Noel Sharpe, deputy group chief executive officer at Bolton at Home and Chair of the Bolton Vision Partnership\u2019s Economic Prosperity Group, made the following comments:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/building-retrofits\/105418\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Retrofitting<\/a> houses is one of the major challenges we face if Bolton is to become carbon neutral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreen technologies such as heat pumps, solar panels and rainwater harvesting are all available in the market, however there is a large skills gap in the number of people and businesses locally who are able to fit, maintain and repair them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce open, businesses across Bolton and the North West will be able to benefit from the opportunities on site, from upskilling their staff in low carbon technologies, through to meeting like-minded companies and using the learning space on offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work to transform a Bolton retail park into a green skills centre could begin this summer, following the release of redevelopment plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,882,430,673,276,592,596],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-employment","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-skills","13":"tag-training"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transformational plans announced for Bolton green skills centre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Work to transform a Bolton retail park into a green skills centre could begin this summer, following the release of redevelopment plans\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/bolton-green-skills-centre\/106074\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plans announced for Bolton green skills centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Work to transform a Bolton retail park into a green skills centre could begin this summer, following the release of redevelopment plans\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/bolton-green-skills-centre\/106074\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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