University College London has been given the green light to double in size by building a £1 billion campus next to the Olympic site.
The 186-year-old university, which houses 26,000 students and 8,000 staff at its historic site in Bloomsbury, has been bursting at the seams for many years.
It was celebrating an “important step” last night after Newham Council gave approval for it to build on the run-down 23-acre site in Stratford, East London.
Malcolm Grant, UCL’s provost, said: “This is a major opportunity to create a world-class residential and academic quarter that will be of real and lasting benefit to the Newham community, “UCL Stratford is not envisaged to be an East London satellite to our historic Bloomsbury campus, but a new internationally