Streets: a part of the shared public landscape

The construction of the South Lawn Underground Car Park and the landscaping of the lawn left multiple legacies for the campus. The signature unmortared brick paving with 'Clifton Greys' was studied and admired nationally. The clay symbolised the earth that had defined the grounds of the larger local landscape for thousands of years. 

The car park allowed these streets and open spaces to be reclaimed by landscape and pedestrians as it used to be and the University was progressively paved with bricks, becoming a place of pedestrian access and informal crossings over a shared public landscape, much as it might have been before the University gained its first grant of land in 1853.

Explore the Master Plan 1970 to learn more about the other proposed features of the vision.