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Cornish software company Headforwards is planning to create a £4m tech campus in the duchy.

The £7m turnover firm, which is marking a decade in business, this year moved to its new FibreHub space for digital, software and tech organisations, next to the Cornwall College campus in Camborne.

But FibreHub is the precursor to a much bigger project called FibrePark, which would see the creation of an entire tech campus with 7,000sq m of employment and creative learning space, next generation connectivity and a new Digital Academy on the Cornwall College campus.

The £4 million project is part of the Camborne Town Deal, which secured £23.7m from the Government’s Towns Fund in June 2021.

Toby Parkins, who , said: “Pool was once a huge mining area and a crucible for the industrial revolution. The headgear of what was Cornwall’s last working tin mine, South Crofty, dominates the skyline and we can see it from our office.

“We want FibreHub and FibrePark to be the modern-day equivalent emblems for a new tech revolution in Cornwall. We want young people especially to see that there is cool stuff going on so that they want to be part of it.

“The problem at the moment is that the tech sector is disperse and invisible in Cornwall. People don’t realise that we employ a multi-national team of people working for clients around the world right here in Pool, and our average salary is £45,000, which is more than twice the Cornwall average.

“Cornwall needs more high-paid jobs which is why we want to foster a cluster of tech businesses in Pool where we can work directly with local schools and Cornwall College to inspire people into tech careers and create the pipeline of talent that our tech businesses need.”