Brooklands College had been planning a £96m expansion but is now preparing to shut its Ashford campus in July 2010 after losing £10m when the LSC retracted funding allocated through the Building Colleges for the Future programme.
The college is also going to stop offering A levels at its Weybridge site, in a bid to recoup costs.
Surrey County Council's lead member for children and learning, Peter Martin, said he wants to meet with government ministers to demand that they step in and avert the crisis.
"The proposed closure of the Ashford site is most serious. More than 1,000 students in an area with higher than average Neets have now lost the opportunity for modern vocational learning facilities in the heart of their community," he said.
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