PLANS have been unveiled for a shared £1.5m sixth form building.
The facility would be built for Ripon Grammar School and Ripon College, to encourage young people to stay on at school and study in the city.
The two-storey, 1,000sq metre building would include an area for socialising, e-learning centre, seminar rooms for diploma students, a performing arts area and two science labs.
If granted planning permission and given the go-ahead for funding by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), it would be built on the old orchard site at the corner of Clotherholme Road and Ash Grove.
Martin Pearman, headteacher of Ripon Grammar School, said the facility would provide a wider range of courses for more students in Ripon, many of whom currently travel to colleges in Harrogate where more subjects are on offer.
The two schools plan to put a bid into the LSC by July. It is unlikely that work would start before September next year.
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