City Learning Quarter

NOW OPEN – COMPLETED NOVEMBER 2025

Our new four-storey campus in Wolverhampton city centre is the flagship of the council’s £61 million City Learning Quarter Vision.

The campus offers 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 boasts 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 make it accessible for hundreds more from across the West Midlands and beyond.

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Our new campus, opened in November 2025, has enabled the college to move from the Paget Road site which was 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 took shape from May 2024 through to July 2025.

What subjects are taught at the new campus?

The new campus houses 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 is taught 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 be taught at the Wellington Road Campus

FAQs

CLQ SUBJECTS

Please click the button above to find out which subjects are taught at the new CLQ campus.

The new CLQ campus is in the centre of Wolverhampton with excellent links to bus, Metro and train services, as well as local cycleways.

There is no on-site parking at CLQ. Options have been explored with car park operations in the city centre for those who choose to continue to travel by car. The most economical option available for staff and students who wish to park for a day within a 5-minute walk to the campus is the Mander Centre car park, see table of fees below:

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

Short stay parking is available on St. Georges Parade, WV2 1AY at a rate of £1.50 for 2 hours or £2.50 for 4 hours.

Alternatively, there are other parking options available if you are prepared to walk further to reduce the cost of parking for a day. For example, 12 hours parking is available within the ring road (Church Street, WV2 4BA) at £2.70 per day which is a 10-minute walk from the CLQ.

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.

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.

Please speak to a member of staff from the Student Hub for more information.

The CLQ campus is 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 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 are expected to swipe through airport-style speed gates using their ID badge, a system that is also in operation at the Wellington Road campus.

In addition, CCTV and access control systems are installed in the new building.

The address of CLQ is as follows:

St Georges Parade, Wolverhampton, WV2 1AZ