PERMISSION has been granted for a major £3million infrastructure project at Bournemouth University’s Talbot Campus in Wallisdown Road.

Borough of Poole has agreed to the construction of a new entrance road to the campus as well as a new bus hub on the western edge of the site and an extension to the car park.

The new road, which will see a “fourth arm” added to the Boundary roundabout, will improve access to the university’s new bus hub.

The project is part of a major development plan which will see a new, four-storey Poole Gateway Building at the entrance to the Talbot campus.

A detailed application for the building itself will be submitted to Poole council later this year.

The proposed 5,600 sq m building will provide specialist facilities for the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Media and Communication such as TV studios, sound stage, live recording rooms as well as music, games and animation labs.

Chief Operating Officer Jim Andrews said the Poole Gateway is one of six major building projects included in a development plan until 2020.

The Student Centre, International College and Fusion building are already open and permission is now in place for the Poole Gateway, a Bournemouth Gateway at St Paul’s roundabout and new student accommodation.

Construction on the remaining three projects will begin next year and all will be open by September 2019.

He said: “We are very pleased to see our planning application supported, as Bournemouth University continues to invest in this region and in its facilities to ensure that we are giving students and staff the best possible experience during their time with us.

“These new facilities will support BU’s success in producing highly employable graduates and world leading research that is recognised across the world.”

Poole councillor Karen Rampton said: “I’m delighted that the approval of this planning application means residents on Talbot Village will get the long awaited all vehicle access off Boundary Road.

“This will relieve the current pressures on Fern Barrow roundabout, and the creation of the new bus hub will ease some of the bus and coach congestion outside the university entrance.”

The institution is planning a wider £100million redevelopment of its campuses in a bid to create a “world class facility”.

A second gateway will sit on the corner of the St Paul’s roundabout in the Wessex Way, and is intended to act as the entrance into the university’s Lansdowne site and the town centre.

It will become the new home for the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences and would play a vital role in ensuring the NHS has enough nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and other healthcare workers into the future.

Meanwhile a 14 storey student residence will be built at 21 Lansdowne Road, on the same site, providing 550 beds.

It will feature state-of-the-art teaching space, clinical skills labs and facilities to develop students for a career in healthcare, as well as a plaza with pedestrian links to other parts of the town and to public transport. There will be a library and catering facilities.