Cumbria University’s riverside campus plans shelved
Cumbria Universty has put plans for a Caldew Riverside campus in Carlisle on hold due to the North West Development Agency refusing to pay decontamination costs.
Edinburgh-based RMJM architects, Arup in Sheffield, on M&E, and the Manchester office of Buro Happold, on engineering duties, were all appointed just two months ago to deliver the scheme, but plans to redevelop the Caldew Riverside site have been put on hold for at least ten years, possibly even scrapped.
A spokesman from the university said: “Carlisle City Council owns the land the campus was planned to be built on. They gave Tesco first option, but those discussions ended and the university was the intended end user but it never formally happened and due to the economic climate the situation has changed. So there is currently no end user.” …