PROPOSALS for £100 million worth of striking new Bournemouth University 'gateway' buildings have been submitted to planners.

These new developments will welcome people to Bournemouth on the A338 Wessex Way and to Poole at the university’s Talbot campus off the Boundary roundabout.

Formal planning applications have been lodged with Bournemouth and Poole councils following a formal consultation period earlier this year.

The Bournemouth building is described as 'a landmark building to the south of the St Paul’s roundabout, providing a clear visual gateway to one of the main entrances into Bournemouth.'

The schemes will include state-of-the-art facilities for the university’s faculties of Media and Communication, Management, Science and Technology and Health and Social Sciences (HSS).

And the Poole application includes new transport infrastructure with a link road, a bus hub on campus and a car park extension.

If approved the building would provide new specialist facilities including TV studios, editing suites and PC laboratories.

The Bournemouth scheme aims to bring HSS under one roof with modern facilities in a new building as well as associated student accommodation.

Professor John Vinney, BU Vice-Chancellor, said: “These new developments will help us achieve our vision of providing world-class facilities for a world-class university so that we can continue to develop global talent.

“The new buildings will bring investment in the region of £100m into Bournemouth and Poole.

“If we are to continue producing Oscar-winning graduates, designers, engineers and the midwives, nurses and social workers of the future, then we need the facilities to attract the best.”

If approved, construction is scheduled to begin in 2017 for both sites, with buildings opening in September 2019.

As part of the Lansdowne project, Three Sixty Developments is proposing to develop student accommodation with up to 550 beds on a separate site in Lansdowne Road at a cost of approximately £37m.

Since 2012 BU has been embarking on a significant programme, investing multi-millions of pounds to improve its facilities for staff, students and the community.

At Talbot, its new £10.5m Student Centre opened in March 2015 and a £22m new academic centre, called The Fusion Building, is nearing completion. In Lansdowne, BU’s new International College opened last September.