 The Booth Lane campus has just undergone a massive redevelopment, reopening for study in 2012.The college is one of the largest further education colleges in the South Midlands, with around 7,000 full-time and part-time students.Towards the end of the 1960s, the Northampton Borough Council Education Committee and Chief Education Officer, MJ Henley MA, identified the need for a new further education college in Northampton to complement the existing College of Technology and School of Art (now part of the Avenue campus of University of Northampton).