FEATURE: The week Northampton became a 'student town' as thousands filed into new Waterside campus
Seven years after plans were first released of a shiny new student campus on the banks of Becket's Park Marina, the big day has finally arrived. The students are here. And they are already making a mark on the town.
This week some 15,000 of them descended on the new £350 million Waterside campus for the first time, leaving behind the university’s outdated buildings on the edge of Kingsthorpe and The Racecourse and taking up residence in a large new single site on the edge of the town centre.
But town leaders, businesses and high street investors will be hoping the move marks one of the most... read more
26 September 2018 in
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Source: Northampton Chronicle & Echo
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