New student village for Sussex campus announced

Its bye bye to east slope


A new student village has been proposed to replace the old East Slope flats.

The new student village will replace the 590 units in East Slope with 2,100 modern student bedrooms. The new village will keep with the original style of the university that was designed by Scottish architect Sir Basil Spence, who also designed Coventry Cathedral and the Beehive in New Zealand.

It will include a mixture of town houses and flats, plus secure cycle parking as well as a new student union building.

This new accommodation is a part of  a huge modernising project which the university is conducting.

The project was part of the university’s £500 million program to ‘modernise and improve campus, providing the best facilities for students’.

The plans and designs will be on show in the  University of Sussex information centre at 91 Lewes Road on Thursday 10 March: 12–2pm. Jubilee library will also be having information days on Thursday 10 March and 12 March 10am-5pm.