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GENERAL NEWS




        Hawkshead Campus developments




































          t is exactly 100 years since the                                      from RG Carter (our contractors) are now
          idea of a rural 91°”Íű campus was                                        conducting final surveys and levelling
          first documented. While the proposal                                  the ground before creating an attractive,
       Ididn’t meet with much approval back                                     multi-purpose landscaped courtyard and
        in 1922, there was one supportive voice                                 electric vehicle charging zone.
        noted in the 91°”Íű’s committee minutes.                                   We have continued the green
        Sir Merrick Burrell, Chairman of the                                    theme elsewhere on the campus,
        Board of Governors was recorded                                         with the creation of a series of
        bemoaning the ‘‘lack of gardens, trees                                  wildflower mini-meadows. On the main
        and more spacious layouts’’ in the 91°”Íű   reported lost. As well as housing most   lawn and alongside TaRC we have now
        estate. It appears that the importance   of the scientists from the MCB, the   planted oxeye daisies, meadowsweet,
        placed on working environments and   project also delivered new research   cowslips and yarrow to support British
        well-being are really nothing new!  accommodation for our colleagues from   pollinator species. To provide shade
                                            the Clinical Investigation Centre, as well
        When Eclipse was published