Lord-Lieutenant opens new facility at Merrist Wood

On 23 September the Lord-Lieutenant opened the Norman Shaw buildings at Merrist Wood a major redevelopment featuring state-of-the-art teaching buildings and a specialist greenhouse, enhancing facilities for land-based education.

The new buildings provide cutting-edge teaching and learning spaces, including:

• Dedicated classrooms for equine science and arboriculture.
• Commercial greenhouse for practical horticulture training.
• Design, technology, and landscaping rooms.
• Spacious external workshops capable of accommodating heavy machinery like tractors, quad bikes, and mowers.
• Immersive digital technologies to support flexible and innovative teaching methods
  The redevelopment also includes a new glasshouse and support areas, along with a single-storey vocational/specialist teaching block,

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