Scheme for university to start next year

Plans by HLM for a new building at Sheffield university have been approved by the city council.

The four-storey scheme for the university鈥檚 social sciences faculty will be built on a sports pitch in the Broomhill area of the city, just to the west of the university鈥檚 main campus.

Work on the new 17,000m虏 building will start early next year and will finish in spring 2020.

The social sciences faculty is the university鈥檚 largest, with more than 9,000 students 鈥 accounting for a third of the university鈥檚 total student population.