University of Northampton - Campuses

Campuses

The university has two sites: Park Campus at Kingsthorpe, a northern suburb of Northampton, and Avenue Campus just north of the town centre and opposite a large open park known as the Racecourse.

Avenue Campus was from 1924 the site of a college of technology which became part of the university.

The university has various types of halls of residence in its two campuses, with just over 1,600 rooms in total. Most first year students live in halls though few second or third years do so. Many of them live in the Abington area, north-west of the town centre. The main halls are:

• Simon Senlis (named after Simon de Senlis), Spencer Perceval and William Carey.
• Margaret Bondfield
• John Clare and Charles Bradlaugh Hall. One former ground floor flat in Charles Bradlaugh Hall serves as a Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Centre, Whilst another former ground floor flat in John Clare houses the Centre for Community Volunteering.
• Bassett-Lowke

The university also offers accommodation at Belinda Ferrison house in the Mounts area of the town centre of Northampton. In April 2012 Northampton Borough Council granted planning permission for a 464-room hall of residence on the site of the St John’s Surface Car Park in Northampton Town Centre. It is envisaged that this will mainly accommodate international and post-graduate students when it opens in 2014.

New buildings include a Santander Bank, "one-stop" student centre on Park campus, an innovation centre at Avenue campus for small and start-up businesses and a complete re-fit of the editing and sound studios at Avenue campus.

The university recently took ownership of the Grade II listed former Kingsley Park Middle School next door to Avenue Campus. This has undergone an £11m refurbishment and now houses most of the School of Science and Technology, which was formerly split between Avenue Campus and Park Campus. The building has been renamed the Newton Building after Sir Isaac Newton.

The university achieved the Ecocampus Silver award in 2011.

In May 2012, the university announced plans to establish a new riverside campus in Northampton town centre on the site of the disused Northampton Power Station on the south bank of the River Nene. The site would be within the Northampton South East Midlands Northampton Waterside Enterprise Zone (known simply as Northampton Waterside) and is subject to planning approval. If approved, construction could be completed by 2020 and the existing campuses would be gradually closed.