NATIONAL SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION CENTRE
NSCC OUTPUTS: • 90 gross direct jobs and £3.9m GVA per annum. • 18,568 sqft Campus Building with labs, lecture rooms and conference facilities. • 12,368 sqft Residential facility with 30 rooms. • 77,501 sqft of Orangutan Enclosure to expand Zoo. • Increased visitors up to 1 million over 2030 masterplan. • Public realm improvements around the facilities.
NSCC AIMS: • Sustain Twycross Zoo as an important education and tourism asset and focal point in the area. • Strengthen the cultural and leisure offer to stimulate an economic and tourism recovery from Covid-19. • Improve pathways to research and educational facilities for schools and communities. • Provision of world-leading facilities to enable new lines of academic research of international importance for conservation and science business activity.
The National Science and Conservation Centre concept won funding from the LUF based on its attractive proposition to address the lack of further and higher education opportunities and uptake within the HBBC area, to enable pathways to STEM related jobs that help tackle the current biodiversity crisis, and to draw high calibre science and research to the area. The provision of a resource that can be utilised by, and provides benefits to, the local community was key to securing this funding. Alongside the mini campus, the NSCC proposal includes a new orangutan habitat to enable TZ to continue working with this species as part of the European conservation management programme.
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