MMU seeking to revamp Manchester’s All Saints Campus

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is hoping to carry out a major revamp of its All Saints Campus, which would see the existing blocks of student accommodation knocked down and replaced.

The university is working in partnership with Unite Students on the plans, with the aim of increasing the overall housing available at the site.

Currently, students are housed in two blocks called Cambridge Halls. These both contain four storeys and provide a total of 770 bedrooms. They were originally constructed during the 1990s, but are no longer large enough to meet the need for housing at the campus.

It is hoped that they can be demolished and replaced with several different housing blocks. These would include two tower blocks – one with 30 storeys and another with 24. If the plan is given approval, it would solve the housing shortage at the site.

MMU has indicated that roughly 5,700 rooms are required to house its annual intake of home-grown and international students. It has a total of approximately 2,500 at the moment, so there is a serious shortfall.

The plans for the All Saints Campus would include cluster and studio flats. These would enable a higher number of students to be housed within the campus, and would free up housing for other people in the centre of the city.

Cartwright Pickard is the firm of architects that designed the plans and they will now be put to the public.

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