A UNIVERSITY has revealed details of a £200m investment programme at its city centre campus.

Newcastle University has published a 14-page brochure setting out its plans to revamp its 50-acre campus over the next three years.

Major construction work is due to start in the next few weeks on the university's perimeter, from Barras Bridge to St Thomas's Street.

Work will begin on a new £35m Student and Administrative Services building - a five-storey glass fronted building on Barras Bridge, directly opposite Newcastle Civic Centre, which will house the university's visitor centre.

The university is investing a further £34m in new student accommodation and teaching facilities for international students and work has already begun on surveying the site of the main development, on the Herschel Building car park, opposite the Haymarket Metro Station.

Prof Chris Brink, Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, said: "Our intention is to provide better facilities for our students and staff, and to improve our public spaces, with landscaping and pedestrian routes through the campus, to strengthen the relationship between the University and the city.'"

Other projects on the University's main campus include a new home for the International Centre for Music Studies and the Great North Museum project, and there are also plans to create a £5m Northern Writers' Centre on Claremont Road.

Meanwhile, a further 29.8m is being spent on a new building to house the Institute of Health and Society and a Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, close to the University Medical School, and 4.8m on a new student accommodation block at Castle Leazes Halls of Residence.