AN innovative university campus of national significance is planned for a run-down area of Worcester city centre.
Plans exclusively revealed to the Evening News include accommodation for almost 400 students, a 150-seat restaurant, a state-of-the-art library and a learning centre for public use at the 55-acre former Worcester Royal Infirmary Castle Street site.
It will transform the north-west corner of the city centre, which has lain redundant since Worcestershire Royal Hospital opened in April 2002.
On Thursday, the Evening News reported the site had been bought for £5m by regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands, with the aim of creating a second campus for University College Worcester.
Plaza-style walkways over the viaduct will give views of the Severn and racecourse, and there will be terraces, open spaces and cycle routes.
The new campus - which would be developed at a cost of more than £80m - would allow for an additional 3,000 students at the college.
Professor David Green, principal of UCW, said the new campus would allow the college to provide an "innovative and creative approach to education".
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