The deal is done and work is about to start on another huge expansion of the University of Bristol, creating a new campus next to Temple Meads station and bringing 4,600 more students and 650 more staff to the city. But what impact will the rising student population have on existing communities in and around Bristol?
That is a question being posed at the latest round of a big community consultation drive being run in South Bristol, which is expected to bear the brunt of the changes coming from the university expansion.
The latest expansion of 4,600 new students at Temple Meads follows a decade where the number of students at Bristol Uni has already grown by 10,000 in the past ten years, and the boss of the university said she and her organisation have been ‘really sensitive’ to concerns about this. The Mayor of Bristol added that for every change and solution, it is a ‘universal truth there are potential downsides for some people’.
