King’s College London have acquired the freehold of Bush House South West Wing, which sits at the heart of the Strand campus. Development of the South-West Wing will potentially provide a learning hub for students in a high quality and accessible building and will help us respond to the anticipated space requirements of this campus.

Development of the South West Wing will potentially provide a learning hub for students in a high quality and accessible building. We are at a very early stage in what will be a complex and detailed planning process and we’ll be inviting students and staff to engage with us as we develop the plans.

Detailed discussions about where students and staff will be located have not begun yet but we would like to be able to use the building from September 2026.

The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, part of the vision for St Thomas’ MedTech Hub, is a joint initiative led by King’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. It will involve the construction of a new building embedded within St Thomas’ campus which will bring together King’s research excellence, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust’s leading clinical practice and the medtech sector’s commercial innovation power and talent, engaging multinationals, SMEs and start-ups simultaneously. The close collaboration will ensure that research in healthcare engineering is translated rapidly into new products and technologies that will benefit patients. The building is expected to be open in early 2024.

The Centre for Children and Young People will bring together, under one roof, the world’s leading experts in clinical care and research from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). Kings College London is part funding the development and will jointly occupy the space for best collaboration between clinical and research teams. This new building development sited adjacent to the IoPPN and SGDPC buildings is being project managed by the SLaM Trust in consultation with and assistance from KCL estates & facilities and IT. The building construction will be completed in 2023, and is expected to be fully operational by early 2024.