City Learning Quarter
Opening autumn 2025!
The new four-storey campus in Wolverhampton city centre is the flagship of the council’s £61 million City Learning Quarter Vision.
The campus will offer first-class education and training facilities for the people of Wolverhampton and beyond, with thousands of students and apprentices set to walk through the doors and gain the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their future career.
The campus will boast state-of-the-art industry-standard training facilities and learning technology for around 2000 students and nearly 200 staff.
What’s more, its city centre location and excellent links to the road network, public transport and cycle routes will make it accessible for hundreds more from across the West Midlands and beyond.
The new campus – currently under construction – is set to open in autumn 2025 will enable the college to move from the Paget Road site which has been identified for much-needed housing.***
The proposals for the City Learning Quarter campus were supported by an initial £6.2 million investment from the City of Wolverhampton Council and Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership, which enabled the completion of design work, site surveys, ground investigations, site acquisition and clearance.
The council also secured £20 million from the government’s Levelling Up Fund and £5 million from the Towns Fund to help deliver the City Learning Quarter vision.
*** Find out more about development opportunities on the Paget Road site here
Timelapse
Take a look at how the City Learning Quarter is taking shape, from May 2024 through to July 2025.
What subjects will be taught at the new campus?
The new campus will house the following subject areas:
- Access to HE
- A Levels
- Art and Design
- Business
- Catering and Hospitality*
- Computing and Digital
- Creative and Digital Media
- Employability
*Bakery will remain at the Wellington Road Campus
- Games Design and E-sports
- ESOL
- Hair and Beauty
- Health and Social Care**
- Music
- Performing Arts
- Photography
- Science
** Courses for adult learners will remain at the Wellington Road Campus
FAQs
The construction of the new CLQ campus is due to be completed in September 2025.
It will then take approximately six weeks to install IT systems, fit out classrooms, equip learning spaces and transfer relevant equipment and resources from the Paget Road and Wellington Road campuses to the new site.
The new CLQ campus is currently scheduled to open to students after the October half-term break.
You will be notified of the actual opening date nearer the time.
All courses that are currently delivered at the Paget Road campus, in Compton, will move to the new CLQ campus.
In addition, some courses currently delivered at the Wellington Road campus, in Bilston, will also move to the new CLQ campus.
Please click the button above to find out which subjects will be taught at the new CLQ campus.
If you are enrolled for a course that will ultimately be delivered at the new CLQ campus you will start the 2025/26 academic year at the campus where the subject is currently delivered – ie. Paget Road or Wellington Road.
You will study there until October half-term and transfer to the new campus after the break – you will be notified of the actual date nearer the time.
If you are enrolled for a course that will ultimately be delivered at the new CLQ campus you will start the 2025/26 academic year at the campus where the subject is currently delivered – ie. Paget Road or Wellington Road.
You will study there until October half-term and transfer to the new campus after the break – you will be notified of the actual date nearer the time.
When the new CLQ campus opens the Paget Road campus will close, so you will continue your studies at the new site.
The new CLQ campus is in the centre of Wolverhampton with excellent links to bus, Metro and train services, as well as local cycleways.
| Daily Rate | £3.50 per day | When parking before 09:30am |
| Weekly Rate | £15.00 per week | Weekly tickets purchased from the pay machines on foot |
A limited number of paid disabled parking spaces will be available on Old Hall Street.
The city centre location of the site also makes it very accessible by bike, train, metro and bus, so you may also wish to consider an alternative mode of transport.
When your course transfers to the new CLQ campus you will be expected to be on-site for the start of your lessons as indicated on your timetable.
Depending on your household income and the course you’re studying, you may be entitled to financial support to help with travel and other college costs.
The new campus will be equipped with a range of state-of-the-art facilities including hair and beauty training rooms, mock-up hospital ward, professional kitchen and science laboratories, as well as music editing suites, performing arts theatre, rehearsal and recording studios, and visual arts spaces.
Members of the public will be able to book appointments at the commercial New Era hair and beauty salons, as well as find out about training courses to boost their employment prospects and get support with searching for and applying for jobs in the Careers and Skills Hub.
The new CLQ campus is intended to be ‘safe by design’ and consultation with West Midlands Police took place during the early design stages to ensure proportionate security measures are taken.
All staff and students will be expected to swipe through airport-style speed gates using their ID badge, a system that is already in operation at the Wellington Road campus.
In addition, CCTV and access control systems will also be installed in the new building.
The address of CLQ is as follows:
St Georges Parade, Wolverhampton, WV2 1AZ
Take a look at how the exterior and interior of the new campus is shaping-up
Completed campus transformation schemes
Advanced Technology & Automotive Centre
Completed September 2024
A purpose-built industry-standard training centre for all automotive, electric vehicle and engineering courses.
Construction Innovation Centre extension
Completed September 2022
An extension to the existing construction centre extension housing new training workshops and classrooms for construction courses.
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