Residents in Manchester have given a strong 'thumbs up' to proposals for a university campus in their community.

Four-fifths of people from Hulme and Moss Side were quizzed on the £120 million campus for Manchester Metropolitan University, and they believed that the proposals will have a positive impact on their neighbourhood.

A single campus for 6,000 staff and students in Education, Health and Social Care, is central to the University's mission to train 'world class professionals'. Among the university's proposals is a commitment to make the campus the most sustainable in the UK with significant open space and an aspiration to produce zero waste, water and carbon dioxide.

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Three-months of community consultation have seen 4,000 local people offer their views in person at more than 40 events, covering shopping areas, libraries, community centres, schools and places of worship in Hulme and Moss Side.

Tom McGee, Spokesman for Loreto College, one of the venues, said: "We have been kept very well informed.

"Local people are very interested in the MMU's proposals and the more they learn, the more they are warming to it."

8,000 newsletters and freepost questionnaires were also delivered to homes and businesses, with a further 5,000 handed out at community venues.

(CD/BMcC)