Third phase of £100m University of York scheme completes

THE third phase of the £100m University of York scheme has completed.

A joint venture partnership between Evans Property Group and the University of York has opened Constantine College, which includes 2000 student beds and £100m of investment over three new colleges at its Heslington East campus.

The £36m Constantine College will accommodate 621 students and tutors over eight blocks. Five blocks will be standard en-suite cluster apartments with a further three blocks of townhouses. A new 7,500 sq ft amenity hub ‘The Forum’ contains social space, meeting rooms and laundry facilities. The building will  be fully occupied by the end of this month.

Constantine College is the third college at the 161 acre Heslington East campus extension following construction of Goodricke College in 2009 and Langwith College, which the JV completed in 2012.

Constantine College was partly funded under a long-term funding facility with Aviva Commercial Finance.

The development is part of the University’s plans to double its physical size through a £750m campus extension on Heslington East. This is being transformed by a range of academic, residential  and sports facilities which include a swimming pool, all weather pitches, gym and fitness suites and recently completed velodrome. The University continues to invest on its original Heslington West campus with a range of new science facilities having opened over the past five years.

James Pitt, development director of Evans Property Group, said: “We have worked successfully in partnership with the University of York for several years as part of a long-term commitment to providing the best possible accommodation and facilities at this incredible campus. Constantine College follows the successful development of the earlier phases and we are delighted to have finished ahead of schedule. We are incredibly proud to have contributed to what is undoubtedly one of the North’s most outstanding educational facilities.”