Consultation on plans for new building

Neighbours of the University are being consulted on plans to build a new £9.9m Sport and Health Building on campus.

We aim to open the four-storey building in summer 2010 and are now consulting local residents about the plans. A public consultation event will be held on Monday 15 September at 6.30pm in the Centuria Building, off Victoria Road.

The new building would link to the Centuria Building and include new dentistry training and sports therapy facilities and also provide expansion for the School of Health & Social Care.

The planned building will feature a series of laboratories, including specialist dental, biomechanic and hydrotherapy facilities, and a number of general teaching rooms and academic offices.

Dental care facilities for the local community The building will also offer clinical facilities for the local community in both dental care and sports therapy, providing a much-needed community resource. The North-East Strategic Health Authority along with Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland Primary Care Trusts will be contributing £1.3m towards the building’s dental equipment.

The building will be designed by CPMG architects, who also designed the recently completed Phoenix and Athena Buildings. CPMG is hoping to submit the project for planning approval in October 2008, and aims for completion in July 2010.

Professor Graham Henderson, University Vice-Chancellor, said: ‘I am delighted to announce our plans for the new sport and health sciences building. It will not only support our fast-growing provision in health and social care and sports therapy but also allow us, for the first time, to deliver programmes for dental therapists and dental nurses.’

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