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University of Huddersfield National Health Innovation Campus Building

New Higher Education Property Development in West Yorkshire, north England design by AHR Architects, UK

12 August 2022

University of Huddersfield granted planning permission for new health campus

Design: AHR Architects

Location: Health and Wellbeing Academy, Southgate development, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, north England, UK

University of Huddersfield Building on the Southgate site

12th of August 2022 – The University of Huddersfield is delighted to have received a committee resolution from Kirklees Council to grant Reserved Matters planning permission, so that the construction of the prominent and high quality first phase building on the Southgate site that will become the home to the University’s new National Health Innovation Campus can proceed.

This follows a meeting of Kirklees Council’s Strategic Planning Committee, and the University is now looking forward to the issue of the formal decision notice so it can commence the development of the new 10,000 square metre first phase building. It has been designed by locally-based architects AHR, who have previously worked with the University on the award-winning Barbara Hepworth and Oastler buildings.

This first phase of the Southgate development will include a new home for the Health and Wellbeing Academy.

The local community will also benefit from access to an award-winning podiatry clinic, a telehealth service, sports and physiotherapy clinics, parent and child clinics, mental health clinics and public-facing spaces dedicated to social science.

The new building represents a significant investment by the University, and will be the biggest construction project in the town as the construction of the University’s second-largest building proceeds.

The building will host a number of classrooms, labs and other specialist facilities for learning which will include:

• A mock-up operating theatre
• A mock-up ambulance known as a ‘simbulance’
• A community flat/dwelling that will replicate visiting patients at home
• Our award-winning Podiatry Clinic, which will be open to the public
• Dedicated office and workspace for external partners

University Vice-Chancellor Professor Bob Cryan CBE said, “This is a significant step along the road to our goal of improving health outcomes and leading innovation in healthcare for the North of England with the National Health Innovation Campus.

“The new building will be a welcoming space for the local community, students and staff. It will help bring together our public-facing health facilities, our entrepreneurial academic activity and research, and make a key contribution to the health economy at a local level and on a larger scale.”

Part of the University’s ambitious vision for the new building, on the site of the town’s former leisure centre, is that it will be the first higher education building in the country to be built to the WELL Platinum standard. This is a system by which buildings adhere to standards for better health and wellbeing through improved air, water, light and other factors.

The campus will enable rapid expansion in fields such as nursing, midwifery, allied health and human sciences, which will help to meet the demand for healthcare professionals.

The Yorkshire and Humber region has some of the worst figures in England regarding the health of its population, with the third lowest life expectancy for both men and women, high levels of obesity and the second highest rate of deaths in infancy.

Background:

The University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield – Inspiring Global Professional

The University of Huddersfield has a growing reputation as an inspiring, innovative provider of higher education of international renown. Researchers at the University of Huddersfield are dedicated to solving the problems and answering the questions posed by industry, science and society as a whole. The University’s research is showcased by world-leading applied research groups in biomedical sciences, engineering and physical sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.

The University of Huddersfield achieved a Gold Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) award in June 2017. This award expired in June 2021 and the scheme is currently being revised. We look forward to being reassessed when the awards are re-opened in 2023. We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017).

Triple proof of teaching excellence: our staff rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates, who have higher degrees, and hold teaching qualifications (HESA 2022). We are joint second for National Teaching Fellowships which mark Britain’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 18 since 2008 (2021 data).

In 2021, the University gained a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its role in advanced measurement in smart manufacturing. The prize recognised the ground-breaking work of the Centre for Precision Technologies. In 2019, the University gained a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the innovative work of the Institute of Railway Research. This followed the 2015 Queen’s Anniversary Prize for expanding global boundaries in new music.

Recognised as a leader in enterprise and innovation, the University has been the recipient of the Times Higher Education magazine’s awards for the University of the Year, Entrepreneurial University of the Year and Outstanding Leadership and Management and also a recipient of a Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The University has been awarded an overall 5 Star rating from QS Stars, which renders the university’s rating as world-class in Teaching, Employability, Facilities, Innovation, Internationalisation and Inclusiveness.

The University annually enrols over 19,000 students to an increasingly multicultural campus that welcomes students from over 120 countries on to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across subjects covering…

…the sciences, engineering and IT
…health, education and the social sciences
…business, management, law and accountancy
…architecture, design, humanities and the arts.

University of Huddersfield National Health Innovation Campus image / infrmation received from University of Huddersfield on 120822

Location: University of Huddersfield, England, UK

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Barbara Hepworth Building at the University of Huddersfield
Design: AHR Architects

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Barbara Hepworth Building at the University of Huddersfield

Oastler Building at the University of Huddersfield
Design: AHR Architects

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Oastler Building, University of Huddersfield

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