Isle of Man company cancels plans for ICT College in Birkenhead
The Isle of Man Today website (which is the website for the three Manx newspapers such as the Isle of Man Courier) reported yesterday that the International Centre for Technology Ltd has "pulled the plug" on a plan to re-use the Conway Building and Hamilton Building (both in Birkenhead).
The Conway Building and the Hamilton Building are both owned by Wirral Council. Manx Education Foundation who had been behind the plans had a minority shareholding in the International Centre for Technology Ltd. However the International Centre for Technology Ltd have since bought out Manx Education Foundation’s shareholding which means the plan for a creative industry training college in Birkenhead will now not happen.
ICT Ltd are instead concentrating on developing a property on the Isle of Man called the Nunnery that they bought from the Tynwald (Isle of Man government) for £5 million that they hope to open later this year.
The now shelved plans for the Conway Building and Hamilton Building were previously reported on this blog and by the Liverpool Echo. News of the plans were first revealed in a report by Cllr Adrian Jones (Cabinet Member for Resources: Finance, Assets and Technology) to councillors last month.
It looks like Wirral Council will have to re-think what they will do with the Conway Building and the Hamilton Building in Birkenhead.
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I like to think that our local blogs, available not just internationally, but in the tax avoiding Isle of Man, have had some influence on this extremely positive development.
On Wirral, we don’t want scoundrels coming together to pull the wool over our eyes re: so-called ‘jobs’ and ‘opportunities’, whilst dipping their soiled snouts into our precious public money trough.
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