Campus Masterplan 2012-2022
The Estates Masterplan (Campus Masterplan 2012-2022) will create a single campus and will involve the construction of new teaching and research buildings, student facilities and major improvements to the public realm.
The first phase of the plan, costing around £700 million, is currently underway and will be delivered by 2019. It will include the building of a new engineering campus, new centres for the School of Law and Manchester Business School, a major refurbishment of the University Library and a bigger and better Students’ Union. There will also be investment in a Combined Heat and Power Facility, as well as a new car park and the refurbishment of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank.
The University will also spend several million pounds to improve the University’s public realm and landscaping in order to capitalise on the planned improvements to Oxford Road, which will see wider pavements, tree-lined boulevards and the removal of all cars during 2015. Students will benefit from major IT upgrades, a new teaching block, refurbishments of several teaching rooms and extension to the Students’ Union Building.
Outline plans have been drawn up for a second phase which is expected to cost a further £300 million and would begin in 2018 and end in 2022. This second phase would create a Biomedical Campus around a refurbished and remodelled Stopford Building, a new health centre for staff and students, and includes refurbishments in the Schools of Computer Science, Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics and Chemistry.
The completion of Phase One of the Masterplan will see the University moving out of most of the buildings on the North Campus, although it will retain some of the buildings to the west of Sackville Street, including the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre. The University is already working with partners from the City Council and New Economy to identify a suitable use for the buildings on the North Campus, which will be vacated by 2019.