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Green light for University of Glasgow expansion

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Glasgow-Uni170323The University of Glasgow has been given the green light by the City Council for a £1bn expansion to be built on the site of a former hospital.

The expansion project will see a new business school, learning hub and research facility built over the next decade.

Professor Anton Muscatelli, the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the university, said: “The decision to approve the master plan is pivotal to allowing us to start this development. An initial financial envelope of around £430M will be spent over the next five years on the first phase of the project.

“It is part of a wider £1bn investment which includes significant spend on refurbishing and improving the existing estate.

“This will be one of the biggest educational infrastructure projects in Scotland’s history and is certainly the biggest development undertaken by this university since it moved to Gilmorehill 150 years ago.”

The university moved from High Street to the Gilmorehill site in 1870 as part of plans to have a teaching centre and hospital side by side so the hospital could be used for clinical instruction and research.

A clause was signed stating that if the hospital, which opened in 1874, ever ceased to operate then the university could buy back the site, which it did last year for £40M.

The first phase of expansion will include an Institute of Health and Wellbeing, the Adam Smith Business School, and a new base for the College of Arts performance space.

The second phase, due to begin in 2023, will include the creation of a Social Justice Hub to lead research into global inequality and a new centre for chronic diseases.

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