Campus development framework

Why Have a Campus Development Framework?

• The Gilmorehill Campus of The University of Glasgow is of considerable significance to the economic and social fabric of the west end of Glasgow, and also to the built environment and sense of community.
• The University of Glasgow has passed through many important stages in its history.
• Its original establishment in the heart of the medieval city, and its 19th Century move to Gilmorehill may be regarded as the two most significant staging points in that history.
• The evolving global environment for university education, and the major opportunities provided by the site currently occupied by the Western Infirmary, suggest that the next decade could represent a third major staging point in the history of the University.
• A campus development framework will provide a credible structure within which this new stage can be approached.

What can a Campus Development Framework do?

• It can make tangible the University’s strategic development aims and objectives.
• It can provide an opportunity for conversation within the University community and, when published, provide confidence to both current and future University communities regarding the corporate aspirations of the University.
• It can provide confidence to the west end community regarding the future of the University.
• It can provide reassurance to the City Council that the council’s approved planning policies are capable of being delivered.
• In association with the University’s Estates Strategy it can provide a flexible framework within which specific projects will be delivered in a coherent way.

What can the Campus Development Plan not do?

• It is not a document which will provide detailed layouts or design.
• It is not a “masterplan”. Detailed masterplans which identify the exact form and design of buildings for individual sites or groups of sites within the area covered by the Campus Development Framework may be brought forward at various points in the future as and when development requirements are known (see below).

What will be the next steps after the preparation of a Campus Development Framework?

• It is likely that individual sites or groups of sites, within the area covered by the Campus Development Framework, will be the subject of future masterplans or development briefs. These documents would provide a detailed assessment of the way in which each individual site, or groups of sites, could be developed and would provide a more detailed context for specific development proposals.
• Individual planning applications, for specific development proposals, would also be brought forward within the context of the Campus Development Framework. Some applications would be brought forward within the context of a masterplan or development brief (as referred to above). Some applications may simply be brought forward within the context of the Campus Development Framework as a whole.

When is all this going to happen?

• The preparation of the Campus Development Framework will largely take place throughout 2013.
• The aim is to have a considered Campus Development Framework in place in the spring of 2014.
• The process will involve wide consultation, both internal and external to the University.