were presented. Plans included creating 450 extra bedrooms, to the existing 214 student rooms, plus a small retail unit and sports facilities. Additional public consultation sessions in August and September 2014 presented plans to build additional accommodation to a total of 791 beds against widespread opposition from the local residents. The plans for Pittville Student Village were approved by Cheltenham Borough Council's planning committee on 16 July 2015. The new student village will increase the number of beds to 794 and also includes new office space for several administrative departments as well as sports facilities. Pittville Student Village was officially opened on 5 April 2018 by artist PJ Crook, a Gloucestershire alumna, to mark the campus' history as an art school.
=== Former campuses ===
==== Hardwick ====
Hardwick, which was located in Cheltenham, closed at the end of the academic year 2024/25 due to the opening of the newly converted City Campus in Gloucester. The Campus has been sold and will be redeveloped to housing.
==== Pittville ====
The Pittville site is located on Albert Road, Cheltenham, and was the home of the Faculty of Media, Art and Communications. It was founded as Cheltenham School of Art over 150 years ago The campus closed in 2011 with courses from the Faculty of Media, Arts and Technology located at Hardwick and the Park and has since been reopened as a new student village.
=== Environmental sustainability ===
The university has had an environmental sustainability strategy since 1993, and was the first British university to meet the ISO 14001 environmental management standard. In the People & Planet Green League 2016 it was ranked as the second greenest university in the UK. The university is the only British institution to be consistently ranked in the top six of the league since its inception in 2007. The university is also a regular winner at the EUAC Green Gown Awards, winning the award for Continuous Improvement in 2008 and 2014. RCE Severn is a Regional Centre of Expertise …
