The UCLan Estate and the Masterplan
Today our Preston Campus lies immediately to the north of the centre of Preston and covers an area of approximately 15 hectares with 63 buildings and 138,000m² of gross floor area.
Key features
The campus estate contains a wide variety of buildings, all constructed during a time period which spans over 100 years. These range from the Victorian-style Harris Building and the former St Peter’s Church (grade 2 listed) Arts Centre, to the functional 1960s-style of the Foster building up to the more contempo- rary Media Factory and clean lines of the JB Firth building. Collectively our campus estate creates an eclec- tic and highly visible built environment, although it also creates challenges in terms of a coherent identity, especially on arrival.
In recent years key investments totalling over £100 million include:
• The £12.5 million JB Firth Building which caters for courses and research programmes in forensic science, fire engineering and chemistry.
• UCLan’s Olympic-standard £13 million Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre, located at the heart of the Preston Campus.
• The £15 million Media Factory which incorporates state-of-the-art facilities for digital media and performing arts students, together with a business incubator facility.
• UCLan’s £5.3 million Allen Building containing some of Europe’s most advanced facilities for students studying within the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
UCLan has a very strong focus on continually improving the student experience and the new University Estate Masterplan will deliver over the period of 10 years in the region of £200 million of investment, trans- forming the Preston Campus, benefitting current and future generations of students, staff, visitors and the wider community.
The proposals set out to create a striking new environment for UCLan, reinforcing key routes and spaces and adding dramatic new interventions in the form of buildings, squares and landscaped areas.
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