Professional Services

Estates and Campus Services

Kirsty Woodward headshotWe are Estates and Campus Services (ECS). We are responsible for maintaining, developing and operating the University’s properties to support our strategy and ensure that we deliver the service that our students, staff and visitors want and expect.

The University’s estate extends to a total site area of 95 hectares, comprising a non-residential estate of 110 buildings covering 200,000m2 and a residential estate of 191 properties totalling around 100,000m2. The majority of the academic facilities are located to the south of Leicester city centre with a main campus supplemented by a number of satellite properties nearby. The residences are in two locations: The City, on the edge of main campus, and The Village, which is around three miles away. We also have strong links with several hospital sites in and around Leicester.

Estates and Campus Services consists of the Campus Services, Estates, and Health, Safety and Sustainability teams.

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The Division is led by Director of Estates and Campus Services, Kirsty Woodward.

Campus Services

We look after the University’s day-to-day operations, helping to manage and maintain the campus and deliver excellent customer service. Campus Services comprises the Security, Accommodation, Leicester Conferences, Portering and Cleaning, Grounds and Gardens and Print Services teams.

The University Security team is a diverse, innovative team that is passionate about delivering fantastic customer service whilst supporting and looking after our community in order to keep them safe. We operate 24/7, 365 days of the year and offer a service across the whole of the University including our University accommodation.

Print Services is at the forefront of technology offering multi-colour printing on various substrates from student thesis, mailshots with variable data, to dressing the campus with vibrant campaigns. Our clients are internal departments, students, external individuals and businesses.

As leading event specialists, Leicester Conferences is the ideal choice for conferences, residential and day events, and educational camps. The Leicester Conferences team support clients with planning and managing events across the University’s facilities. We also offer a place to stay at our dedicated hotel and conference venue, College Court. With 123 beds and dedicated facilities we offer year-round Bed and Breakfast at competitive rates and host a range of business and private events. The on-site bar is also open to all seven-days a week.

Leicester Services Partnership (LSP) is the University’s catering and retail operator and a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Leicester. LSP operate all commercial activities across the University, including retail, hospitality, bars, merchandising, events, such as the O2 Academy and Starbucks. The LSP team always endeavour to provide a consistent customer service experience, inspirational spaces to eat, drink, relax, reflect, learn and socialise and offer something entirely new for our customers. LSP operate a range of outlets from Queens Pizza and Pasta in the Percy Gee Building to the Village Pub at the Oadby Student Village.

If you are visiting campus or are looking for somewhere safe and convenient to park in Leicester, we offer parking at the Freemen’s Common Multi-Storey Car Park (MSCP). The car park offers pay-as-you-go cashless parking 24/7, 365 days of the year. We also offer 28 dedicated EV charging bays.

Campus Services is led by Laurence Perkins, Deputy Director of Campus Services: lp142@leicester.ac.uk.

Questions about Campus Services

If you have any questions when visiting campus you can visit the team at our Campus Receptions located at:

You can also email ECS-Service@le.ac.uk with your question and a member of the ECS Service Desk will get back to you.

You can also access our services or report any issues directly using our dedicated service portal (log-in required)


Key contacts

Security:

Print Services: 

Estates

Health, Safety and Sustainability

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