Plans to build a 'social sciences quarter' at the University of Warwick have been revealed.

The university has applied for outline planning permission for up to 32,000sqm of 'education floorspace' to bring the faculty all under one roof.

Currently the 14 social sciences departments are spread across campus, but the university wants to bring them all together in a new building at the junction of Gibbet Hill Road and Westwood Heath Road.

A planning application submitted to Warwick District Council said: "Although it is a world leading faculty, the performance is limited by the lack of high quality, purpose built, academic accommodation. 

"Many departments are scattered across the University estate, often in facilities that are not fit for purpose, which restricts collaboration, innovation, and economies of scale. 

"The social sciences quarter aims to release the full potential of the faculty by co-locating all departments on a single site, in purpose built accommodation."

If approved the building would sit at the junction of Gibbet Hill Road and Westwood Heath Road (image via planning application)

With the scheme only at the outline stage, no detailed designs for the building have been put forward.

But the plans promise it will "deliver a highly sustainable, low carbon building" for the "new front door to the campus".

The application also promises to create a design "to promote openness and demonstrate the university's commitment to quality, longevity and sustainability". 

The quarter forms the next phase of the university's campus strategy to 2030, having recently opened the new faculty of arts building, arts centre and the interdisciplinary biomedical research building at the Gibbet Hill campus. 

If the scheme is approved, a piece of art in memory of Coventry-born Sir Frank Whittle and aerospace engineer Sir George Cox, would need to be moved elsewhere on campus.

See the full plans here.