Warwick Uni reveals 9 new expansion projects

THE University of Warwick’s massive expansion is taking another step forward with the approval of nine major new projects set to be sought this spring.

The major projects include a new £80 million Faculty of Arts building, new car parking and new living quarters for up 1,000 students.

Permission for a £54.3 million Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building that will bring together up to 300 biomedical researchers from across the School of Life Sciences and Warwick Medical School to fight human diseases is also being sought. University bosses say a major planning application combining all of the projects will be submitted to Coventry City Council this spring.

They will help fuel the rapid growth of the university where £400 million is being spent on a number of new buildings over the next four years.

The university’s vision for a new Faculty of Arts building costing £80 million is to create a space that is “open, inviting and flexible, enabling collaboration, creativity and innovation to flourish”.

It wants the building to act as a hub both for public engagement in the arts and humanities, while also nurturing cultural value.

The building would unite all of the Faculty of Arts departments from Millburn House and the Humanities Building under one roof and provide specialist facilities to support their work.

The university plans to invest £54.3M in a new research building on the Gibbet Hill campus that will bring together up to 300 biomedical researchers from across the School of Life Sciences and Warwick Medical School to fight human diseases.

It will provide the two Schools with a worldclass environment, including a new 400-seat lecture theatre and many new social and collaboration spaces, in which to train future generations of biomedical researchers.

The full plans will be available for residents to view on May 23.

Residents can drop in to the session, being held in the Felden Building in the Arden Conference Centre on the Westwood campus between 3pm and 7pm. The postcode is CV4 8AH.

Parking will be available in car park 13, next to the Tennis Centre. Several councillors have been invited to attend an advance briefing session.