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New drawings of Sizewell C's education complex in Leiston emerge

New details about an education complex which is being built by Sizewell C have emerged ahead of a public to planning permission, College on the Coast will include a permanent post-16 facility and apprentice hub and be located in Leiston, near where the power plant is due to be campus is being delivered in partnership with Suffolk New College and hopes to welcome its first students from Pyke, Sizewell C's joint managing director, believes the new facility will help people "who have faced real barriers" access education. "Building an education campus right here in this town will be life-changing for thousands of local people," she added."This is the start of an exciting new chapter for Leiston and the wider region." According to those behind the project, the site will deliver technical, vocational, and academic pathways "aligned to the workforce needs of Sizewell C and the wider energy, infrastructure, and engineering sectors".If approved, it will take shape as a two-storey building facing King George's Avenue with space for 150 students and 20 full-time staff. Alan Pease, principal and chief executive officer at Suffolk New College, said: "We are delighted to announce the location and design of our new Leiston training centre."This news further extends our commitment to support those living in the east of the county and builds on the work that we have achieved." The new details about the campus are being shared a day after it was revealed the cost of building the Sizewell C nuclear power plant had jumped to £38bn from £ will mean an additional £1 will be added to household energy bills every month for at least a Pyke said earlier estimates did not account for inflation or Alison Downes, director of pressure group Stop Sizewell C, said the project had "only crawled over the line thanks to guarantees that the public purse, not private investors, will carry the can for the inevitable cost overruns".She added: "It is astounding that it is only now, as contracts are being signed, that the government has confessed that Sizewell C's cost has almost doubled to an eye watering £38bn - a figure that will only go up." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.