Rural Solutions has contributed to a number of innovative projects in the education and training sectors of the rural economy.
Our areas of work include:
- A commission to conceptualise the UK’s first Rural Academy
- Concept, design and end-use options - education, employment and environmental - for a redundant quarry in a National Park
- Design and development of a contemporary multi-space facility, with seminar, training, meeting rooms and café
- A feasibility project for the creation of a young entrepreneur hub in a renaissance market town
- Assessment and diversification surveys for leading private schools
- Feasibility and schematic designs for the provision of student accommodation, auditorium, learning and theatre space for a rural college
- Refurbishment and redesign of a Grade I stable courtyard to create a visitor, catering and education centre
Education & Training - Langcliffe Quarry, Settle
The Rural Solutions service has grown considerably in recent years, with feasibility and business plans now incorporating the arts, education, healthcare, leisure and tourism. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than at Langcliffe Quarry - the former Craven Lime Works, near Settle.
Located in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the clients were the National Park Authority, Yorkshire Forward and Craven DC. The brief was to devise an end-use concept and secure planning against a backcloth of 15 years of earlier failures. Our planning and scheduled monuments submission was to create a landmark environmental, education and enterprise centre.
