City Campus This comprises a number of locations on the northern side of
Leeds city centre, largely between the
Inner Ring Road and the
University of Leeds campus. In addition to the former Polytechnic site, several other buildings have recently been acquired. These include: Old Broadcasting House, the former home of the BBC in Leeds; Electric Press, a building on
Millennium Square; and Old School Board, the birthplace of school education in Leeds. The latest additions for the 2008/09-year were the Rose Bowl, the new home of the Leeds Business School, opposite the Civic Hall and designed to reflect the facade of the Civic Hall, and the Broadcasting Place complex, including Broadcasting Tower, a new set of buildings which fits in with the red stone brick buildings famous in Leeds and which provides teaching space for the Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology, the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, and the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities, as well as student accommodation. Three buildings on the site have been disposed of since becoming a university, the Brunswick building was sold and in 2008 demolished; it is now the site of the
Leeds Arena. A further tower block has been sold and is now a
Premier Inn. More recently, Cloth Hall Court has also been disposed of and sold to their neighbour, The University of Leeds. The remaining largely 1960s buildings of the former polytechnic were reclad in the early 2010s. New high-rise student accommodation has been built around the City Campus and includes
Opal Tower and the
Sky Plaza. These are now the tallest buildings in the Northern half of the city centre.
Headingley Campus A campus sited in
Beckett Park, Headingley, the campus is connected to the city centre by
Headingley railway station which is a short walk from the campus. Bus routes on Otley Road and Kirkstall Lane are also close by.
James Graham Building The main building was constructed in 1912 as the Education Block for the
City of Leeds Training College and is a Grade II Listed Building of red brick,
gritstone ashlar dressings, slate and a lead roof. It is of classical
Neo-Georgian style by G. W. Atkinson, the winner of an architectural competition. The main entrance is reached by a flight of stairs to a recessed
portico framed by 4
Corinthian pillars and a
pediment above, and the building as a whole was constructed around two internal quadrangles. However, these have now been filled in to create large lecture theatres. During the
WW I and
WW II it was used as a military hospital. It is now named after James Graham, Secretary of Education of the City of Leeds, who was a major instigator of the Training College, and greatly involved in the planning (some at his own expense) and supervision of the project.
The Grange This is a Grade II* listed building of ashlar gritstone with blue slate roofs and a lead-covered dome. The earliest portions date from 1752, but there were major alterations in about 1834 and 1858 by the Beckett family, who ultimately sold it and the surrounding estate to Leeds Corporation to build the college and make a public park. It was used by the college as a hall of residence for men, but the university converted it into IT offices and service areas. a student hall of residence built in the 1960s, the Carnegie Village, was opened in August 2009, providing on-campus accommodation for 479 students.
Accommodation residences in
Meanwood. The university provides 4,500 bedrooms in a variety of locations and all first year undergraduates are guaranteed a place in university accommodation, so long as Leeds Beckett University is the student's first choice university. student residences in
Leeds city centre are shared with the
University of Leeds. Carnegie Village was newly built in September 2010 and provides Passivhaus standard townhouses and apartments at Headingley Campus. The largest hall is
Kirkstall Brewery on Broad Lane which has places for over 1,000 students and is about from the Headingley campus. As its name suggests, it is a former brewery property, but is mostly modern blocks. The second largest is
Sugarwell Court, in
Meanwood, which is about from the City campus, and accommodates 388 students. This is also a converted industrial site. Two of the most popular accommodation buildings are next to each other in
Burley near
The Leeds Studios and from City Campus. Formerly owned by
Opal Property Group and now owned by
Greystar Real Estate Partners, they are Marsden House (previously Opal 1) and Leeds Student Village (previously Opal 2). Accommodation types not owned by the university vary. Across North Leeds there are many sites which are primarily low-rise buildings, often converted from a former industrial use. The growing number of sites around the
city centre has led to the building of new highrise complexes, these include CLV Leeds (previously
Opal 3),
The Skyplaza and
Broadcasting Tower. ==Organisation and governance==