Tender: Feasibility Study for Redevelopment and Extension of Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran

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Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre is seeking a supplier to deliver a feasibility study for the redevelopment and extension of its 19th‑century manor house in Cwmbran to support the centre’s community-focused arts programme and long-term legacy. The study must include wide-ranging community engagement and consultation with users and artists and consider accessibility as a primary concern, ways to maximise gallery and flexible multi-functional spaces for learning and increased community use, audience potential and development, options to increase income (including a larger craft shop and café and bookable community/business spaces), provision of a small number of studios or offices for artists and creative businesses, improving and utilising the site’s grounds as a valuable green space, and maximising environmental sustainability of the existing building and any extension working towards low to zero emissions. The study should also consider the potential for an extension facing the main road to the rear toward the adjacent M Cwmbran Shopping Centre (which attracts around 22 million visitors per year) to increase awareness and audiences, while preserving and celebrating the centre’s distinctive Victorian architecture; the building is not listed.