BLUECOAT CAR PARK

The Bluecoat School is situated in the Urban settlement of Oldham. This area is located to the Northeast of Central Manchester. The site is surrounded to the North, East and West by largely residential properties. Immediately to the South there are midrise detached apartment blocks with industrial warehouse style estates beyond to the South.
The main campus is entered from the North of Egerton Street close to the crossroad intersection with Horsedge Street. There is a severe drop from the campus's southern boundary down to Egerton St will a period stone-built wall retaining soils to the North.
The site comprises of circa ten blocks predominately two-storey. To the south of the site sat a two-story temporary accommodation block which is to become a 45-parking bay car park.
The current main pedestrian entrance is either side of the vehicular entry point off of Egerton St. The construction area is to the south of the on-campus road and is the grass area of the existing site.