Work is finally to start on a new University of Bristol campus next to Temple Meads station, which will open in just three years’ time. The £500 million campus has been in the planning stages for more than six years, and has been delayed by the covid pandemic, but work to start constructing the huge campus will begin next month.
The University of Bristol has signed contracts with construction company Sir Robert McAlpine, and the site will welcome around 4,600 students and 650 university staff on the site of the old Royal Mail sorting office on Cattle Market Road next to Temple Meads station.
The site across the road at ‘Temple Island’ will house 900 students in accommodation blocks being built as part of the scheme - and there are other sites around the Temple Quarter area that private builders of PBSA - purpose built student accommodation - are already working on.
