Masterplan Aims Aim: To form a vibrant learning, working, and living community
The University estate will need to grow to meet the University’s growth aspirations. The overall footprint of the University campus is already quite extensive, however, and a common criticism is that this dampens the social energy of the campus and a sense of place. Moving forward, the growth and enhancement of the campus will be focused at its core to form a more vibrant learning, working, and living community. Over the next 12 years there will be buildings that will be coming towards the end of their useful life, providing an opportunity through demolition, refurbishment and repurposing, to restructure the campus estate. Sites will be developed at higher densities to yield significantly more built area without compromising on greenspace. Academic delivery will relocate from the edge of campus at Westwood to strengthen the core and provide for a more consistent university experience. Aim: To shape a distinctive University of Warwick identity that has a ‘cosmopolitan in the countryside’ feel There is a feeling that the University is losing the green character that was a strong part of its identity. New green, leafy, and active spaces will be created amongst buildings in the core of the campus and enhanced green corridors will sustain connections between the rural countryside and the edge of the city. The built layout and skyline of the campus will be transformed to create distinctive quarters and aid navigation of the campus. Aim: To create an accessible inclusive people focused environment Traffic congestion, the speed of traffic, parked vehicles, and highway engineered spaces create significant issues of segmentation and division for pedestrians and cyclists. This undermines the campus experience, resulting in ugly tarmacked spaces, and walking and cycle routes that are not intuitive and add anxiety to an already pressurised student experience. The future campus will offer a much better environment for people with a more cohesive, convivial, and easily navigable network of routes, whilst still providing for essential servicing and car parking needs. Aim: To transform regional transport connectivity to campus With a lack of viable alternatives, staff, and visitor commuting to the campus is currently dominated by single occupancy commuting by car. This leads to high levels of peak hour congestion and a ‘hunt’ for parking, which also adversely impacts on buses, cycles, and pedestrians that share the same highway network. A flexible, multi-mode approach is proposed to suit the different needs of users, the geographic diversity of home addresses, and differing financial influences. Aim: To deliver a SMART Carbon Neutral Campus The reshaping of the campus offers the scope to accentuate the University’s commitment to sustainability and deliver a SMART Carbon Neutral Campus. For the avoidance of doubt, ‘carbon neutral’ is expressed in terms of the University’s measured scope 1 and scope 2 carbon emissions. It has also been developed conscious of the need to be resilient, scalable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable. This will include proposals to reduce environmental burdens (energy, carbon, water, waste and materials), to maximise the generation and storage of green energy, and to implement SMART technologies. Aim: To create a flexible framework for other development opportunities within the campus and beyond New development associated with the University’s growth aspirations will be focused on the renewal of the campus core, but there will also be other development opportunities associated with the peripheral areas of the campus. The University is positioned on the edge of Coventry, next to the communities of Canley and Cannon Hill, where there is scope for regeneration. The other side of the campus is located in Warwick District where the development of new residential communities is allocated in the Local Plan.
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