Riverfront- Left Bank
The Area:
The City Centre riverside used to be dominated by surface level car parking. The new Riverfront Theatre and Arts centre now completed and a former warehouse has been converted to office use. The existing riverside walk is underused and pedestrian connections to the City Centre are unattractive and indirect.
Vision:
The Newport Theatre & Arts Centre will provide significant confidence for the future development along the river’s edge. It will also provide a new civic venue which engages and activates the river, especially at night and on weekends.
The University has prepared a vision for Higher Education over the next 10years which envisages doubling student numbers and developing a new campus in the City Centre. The School of Art, Media & Design; Computing and Engineering; and Business & Management are proposed to be relocated to the riverside site.
The Newport Theatre and Arts Centre and the University’s Art, Media & Design School provide a great opportunity to promote the arts and creative activity in the City Centre and engage the design and entrepreneurial media sectors. Students within the City Centre will provide increased activity at all hours of the day. Development and public realm improvements must engage students and the places they frequent. The cultural district will extend north to the Castle which will once again become a tourist destination and an important landmark for Newport.
CGI of the New Riverfront University Campus
The new Breeam Excellent £35m campus for the University of Wales Newport will house the acclaimed School of Art, Media and Design for the University, together with the Newport Business School, accommodating eventually up to 3,000 students in total. Work is expected to start on site in 2007/08.
Latest News:
Piling works have begun on the new Riverfront site (January 2009).
Initial site clearance in January 2008 is now completed.
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