Editing University of Bath (section)

==Campus and facilities==
[[File:Uni.of.bath.campus.arp.jpg|thumb|The Parade, a central pedestrian thoroughfare connecting most academic blocks]]
[[File:School of architecture and building engineering Bath university1.jpg|thumb|School of Architecture and Building Engineering by [[Alison and Peter Smithson]] (1982–88)]]
[[File:The Library, University of Bath - geograph.org.uk - 795438.jpg|thumb|The library]]

===Main campus===
The university's main campus is located on [[Claverton Down]],<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Bath, Claverton Down campus |url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/locations/university-of-bath-claverton-down-campus/ |publisher=University of Bath}}</ref> approximately 1.5 miles from the centre of Bath. The site is compact; it is possible to walk from one end to the other in fifteen minutes. The design involved the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, with road traffic on the ground floors and pedestrians on a raised central thoroughfare, known as the Parade. Buildings would line the parade and student residences built on tower blocks rise from the central thoroughfare. Such plans were mostly followed.

At the centre of the campus is the Library, a facility open round the clock offering computing services, information and research assistance as well as books and journals. A number of outlets are housed around the parade, including restaurants, bars and fast-food cafés and two small supermarkets, as well as academic blocks. Building names are based on their location and distance vis-à-vis the library (e.g. 1 East, 2 East). Odd-numbered buildings are on the same side of the parade as the Library, and even-numbered buildings are on the opposite side.

Buildings along the east–west axis are mostly directly accessible from the parade, which is generally considered to be "level two", but later additions, such as 7 West, 9 West, 3 West North and 8 East, follow the rule less strictly. 7 West is generally accessible only via 5 West or 9 West, and 3 West North, 9 West and 8 East have entrances at ground level at varying distances from the main parade. Buildings on the south of the campus, 1 South to 4 South, are accessible via roads and pedestrian walkways by the university lake and gardens.

Buildings, as in many of the so-called [[Plate Glass University | plate glass universities]], were constructed in a functional modernist style using concrete, although such designs were later derided for lacking the charm of the [[Victorian architecture | Victorian]] [[Red Brick university | red-brick universities]] or the [[Ancient Universities | ancient and medieval]] ones. In Bath, there is a particular contrast between the concrete campus and the [[Georgian architecture | Georgian style]] architecture of the [[World Heritage Site | World Heritage City]] of Bath.

The eastern part of the campus is dominated by the Sports Training Village, built in 1992 and enhanced in 2003 with an extension.

The northern perimeter of the university is bounded by student residences Brendon Court, Eastwood, Marlborough Court, Solsbury Court, Norwood House, Osborne House, Polden Court, The Quads, Westwood, and Woodland Court. The original plan for students to be housed in tower blocks above the parade continues with the small number of rooms (110) in Norwood House. However, the second tower block, Wessex House, now hosts offices rather than residences.

The university also owns buildings in the city of Bath, mostly student accommodation dotted around town, including Canal Wharf, Carpenter House, Clevelands Building, John Wood Building and John Wood Court, Pulteney Court and Thornbank Gardens.

There is also an Innovation Centre that provides work space, practical support and expertise to local technology enterprises and entrepreneurial companies that emerge from the university's student and academic research base

Two new buildings were opened in 2017. The Virgil Building, adapted from a former police station, offers a hub and support for students and staff in the centre of Bath, including professional, counselling and careers services, Joblink, a skills centre and learning commons. The university also opened a centre at 83 Pall Mall in central London, with a stated aim of building partnerships and engaging with business, politics and Bath's alumni community in the UK's capital.

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Over several years, the grounds have received recognition for their outstanding beauty with awards from Bath in Bloom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/BathNES/environmentandplanning/parksandopenspaces/Bath+in+Bloom+Competition.htm |title=Bath in Bloom Competition |publisher=BANES Council |access-date=14 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503163545/http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/BathNES/environmentandplanning/parksandopenspaces/Bath%2Bin%2BBloom%2BCompetition.htm |archive-date= 3 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Campus developments===
The university continually upgrades its Claverton Down campus with new teaching blocks. A proposal to move the boundary of the [[green belt]] away to the edge of the campus to facilitate further development was agreed in October 2007 by the [[Bath and North East Somerset|local council]] following a public inquiry, although the boundary of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty still crosses the site. In July 2005, building 3 West North (officially opened on 27 October) was completed. The deconstruction of the [[asbestos]]-contaminated 4 West was completed in mid-2005 and the 4 West building opened in April 2010, providing additional teaching and office space.

;Completed projects

*4 West, complete with Cafe, completed March 2010
*A new Student Centre, completed October 2010
*The East Building, a multifunction building (offices and teaching rooms), completed May 2011
*The Chancellors' Building, new teaching facilities, completed October 2013
*The Quads is a new student accommodation building on campus with 703 en-suite bedrooms, completed summer 2014<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/student-accommodation/index.html |title=Student accommodation |access-date=14 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217021216/http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/student-accommodation/index.html |archive-date=17 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The Edge opened in early 2015 and has teaching facilities, theatre, gallery, performance and rehearsal studios<ref>{{cite web|title=Centre for the Arts|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/arts-centre/index.html/|publisher=University of Bath|access-date=28 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529141645/http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/arts-centre/index.html|archive-date=29 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*1 West refurbishment to add new learning and research facilities and computer laboratories and offices<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/1-west/index.html|title=1 West – University of Bath|last=web-support@bath.ac.uk|website=www.bath.ac.uk}}</ref>
*4 East South, providing research and teaching space for the Faculty of Engineering & Design as well as a cutting edge computing data centre. Opened June 2016<ref>{{cite web|title=4 East South|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/4-east-south/index.html|publisher=University of Bath|access-date=28 May 2014}}</ref>
*10 West, a multifunction building which expanded the Department of Psychology, a new home for the Institute of Policy Research as well as providing dedicated postgraduate study space. Formally opened on 20 July 2016 by Professor Dame Vicky Bruce.<ref>{{cite web|title=10 West|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/10-west/index.html|publisher=University of Bath|access-date=28 May 2014}}</ref>
*The Virgil Building, located in a former police station on Manvers Street into a learning zone with office space for student-facing services including study space, training rooms and a coffee bar. Office Space is also provided for the Careers Service, Student Services and others for advice and guidance.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/manvers-street/index.html |title=Manvers Street |access-date=13 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124165410/http://www.bath.ac.uk/campus-investments/project-overview/manvers-street/index.html |archive-date=24 November 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>
*The Milner Centre for Evolution, a £7 million development dedicated to evolution research. The centre formally opened in September 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/milner-centre-for-evolution/|title=Milner Centre for Evolution|website=www.bath.ac.uk}}</ref>
*Polden, to provide 300 postgraduate bed spaces on the Western edge of campus close to existing campus accommodation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/polden-construction-project-newsletter/|title=Polden construction project newsletter|website=www.bath.ac.uk}}</ref>
*10 East, a new home for the School of Management, which opened on 7 June 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/our-new-school-of-management-building-opens/|title=Our new School of Management building opens|website=www.bath.ac.uk}}</ref>

===University of Bath in Swindon===
The university opened a second site, Oakfield Campus, in 2000 on Marlowe Road Swindon, on a site leased from the council. Formerly ''Oakfield School''<!--incoming redirect-->, the site was jointly funded by the university and Swindon Council. Officially The University of Bath in Swindon, the campus offered undergraduate courses in childhood studies and social work.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.uk-universities.net/Universities/University-of-Bath-in-Swindon.html | work = uk-universities.net | title = University of Bath in Swindon}}</ref>
The campus was closed in the summer of 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/4348124.University_s_Oakfield_campus_may_be_demolished/
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|title =University's Oakfield campus may be demolished}}</ref>

Under the Gateway Project, the university had planned to build a major new campus next to the Great Western Hospital and the Coate Water nature reserve. The project had met opposition from environmentalists and locals<ref>{{cite web|title=Swindon Civic Trust Town Centre University Proposal|publisher=Swindon Civic Trust|last=Hayward|first=Alan|author-link=Alan Hayward|url=http://www.swindoncivictrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/scttowncentreUniversity.pdf|access-date=12 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820215938/http://www.swindoncivictrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/scttowncentreuniversity.pdf|archive-date=20 August 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> but had met with Government approval.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Vicki |title=University plans are suspended |url=http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/1193486.University_plans_are_suspended/ |access-date=5 August 2018 |work=Swindon Advertiser |date=14 February 2007}}</ref> The university withdrew from the project in March 2007 citing "prevailing planning and funding conditions".<ref>{{cite press release|title=University of Bath withdraws from Gateway project|publisher=University of Bath|date=1 March 2007|url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2007/3/1/gateway-withdraw-release.html|access-date=22 March 2007}}</ref>