Plans to upgrade and expand teaching facilities at the University of East Anglia risk damaging the integrity of the institution’s grade II-listed “Lasdun Wall”, campaign group the Twentieth Century Society has warned.

UEA is currently undertaking pre-application consultation work on refurbishment proposals for the block, which was the centrepiece of Denys Lasdun’s 1964-1968 masterplan for the Norwich campus, and forms the backdrop for its grade II* Ziggurat buildings.

The university acknowledges that the Lasdun Wall is an “iconic” part of its history, but states that it needs refurbishment and repair – and sustainability improvements to reduce its carbon emissions to contribute to UEA’s target of becoming a net-zero campus by 2045.

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