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Offices plan boosted by major firm

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Vincent
Published date01 July 2022
Part of the former main council office at Northgate, Halifax, is being converted into office space which is being taken by insurance giant the RSA Group, which is expected to move in by the end of the summer

The building also contains four commercial units as part of the multi-million pound conversion and negotiations are under way to let one of these.

Calderdale Council's corporate lead for major projects, Rob Summerfield, said the authority was working on marketing the other three units over the next few months and this was expected to be successful once RSA's staff were using their new office.

One of the aims of the Northgate project is to increase footfall into Halifax town centre.

An earlier part of the Northgate project, the creation

Clr of Calderdale's sixth form centre, Trinity Sixth Form Academy, which is next door, had proved very successful, he told members of the council's CAFM Asset Management Board, which oversees the council's buildings and estate.

Opening to its first students in September 2020, it had been oversubscribed and around 730 young people were being educated there, more than 100 more than had been envisaged.

The trust was looking at ways in which more students could be accommodated, said Mr Summerfield.

As well as also increasing footfall an aim of establishing the centre was to offer Calderdale children the chance of studying at this type of establishment.

For some years students had been going out of Calderdale to attend similar establishments including at...

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