Team in place for Staffordshire technology institute

Developer St Modwen Logistics has joined a consortium of Midlands-based education providers and employers to form the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Institute of Technology (IoT) development.

The £16M project will bring together key industry, education and research opportunities to the county and will see employers and academia working together in targeted STEM areas.

St Modwen Logistics Managing Director Polly Troughton said: “We are absolutely delighted to join as a core partner for this development.

“We are also thrilled to have secured the land on Palmbourne Industrial Estate and are pleased that our ambitious plans for the new Institute of Technology will form part of a wider project.”

Contracts were recently exchanged on Palmbourne Industrial Estate, which is currently occupied on a leasehold basis by NSCG Stafford College. The College is expected to relocate its Construction and Engineering facilities to a brand-new state-of-the-art facility in June 2023, which will pave the way for the existing Palmbourne buildings to be demolished to make way for the new development.

The Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire IoT is scheduled to open in 2024.