UTC@harbourside

I have found some recent views of the inside at www.abandoned-derelict.co.uk/newhaven-locomotive-workshop-urbex 2016 this website has now been deleted or moved.

This will be the college cafe and socializing area.

The cast iron columns from the old engine sheds, seen here on the left, will be incorporated in the new building or redeployed in other local developments.

Other people were quicker off the mark - there are many internal views at www.abandoned-derelict.co.uk/newhaven-marine-engineering-workshop

These will be refitted as workshops and laboratories for the engineering courses for 14 to 18 year-olds.

The land behind that site slopes away possibly by as much as 2 metres.

31.12.2014 - Last time I went past the red brick storey appeared to have been dismantled, leaving just the girders. The overhead crane mechanism had disappeared. I was hoping that was a feature they would keep, even if it was just ornamental. Maybe it will reappear.

As it has been a time since I uploaded anything new in this album, perhaps I should explain that I am someone who passes this site most weeks and has been observing its progress from across the Sussex Ouse. There is a photographer who has been recording the buildings from the early stages, prior to the demolition of some buildings and the gutting of others. Her website is at www.carlottaluke.com/architecture-and-restoration/utecharbourside-renovation-project I am pleased to see Newhaven having new life being breathed into it by this college and by becoming the service base for the Rampion off-shore wind farm, which is being developed between Newhaven and Brighton.

This shot shows the current state of the UTC's development. The former engineering workshops on the left are still work in progress. The old carpentry workshop has been converted and there are portable buildings on the right, which I assume are being used as classrooms. There are more behind but I don't know how many are used by the students and how many are construction-related. The college has had an intake of Year 11 pupils, but the full range of courses won't be on offer until next September. The college's website is www.utc-harbourside.org