The next phase of a £70 million expansion of a Birmingham university campus is due to be handed the green light by city planning chiefs this week.
Newman University is planning a £22 million overhaul of part the campus in Bartley Green which will see almost 300 student bedrooms added alongside new teaching facilities and parking.
This latest phase of development is expected to take around five years to complete, with the first of the accommodation to be ready by 2017, and follows the opening of a new library and research centre in 2013 and the award of "university status".
The project will see the demolition of Newman Close student accommodation, change of use of other bedrooms to academic space, existing teaching buildings McAuley and Freire bulldozed and the Sturge education building refurbished and extended.
Three new separate blocks of student accommodation will also be built, housing 298 bedrooms, and an existing car park will be reconfigured to expand from 265 to 350 spaces.
Birmingham City Council's planning committee will debate the proposals at its meeting this Thursday where officers have recommended they are approved.
Newman University's original campus was built in 1968 as a training college to prepare teachers to work in Catholic schools in Birmingham.
It was awarded 'Taught Degree Awarding Powers' in 2007 when it became Newman University College and in 2010 started its first major redevelopment since launching in the 1960s.
