| Description | Signed minutes of a committee made up of University officers and members of the Guild of Undergraduates Council to consider recommendations for a proposed Students Union building on the Edgbaston site. The Principal, Charles Grant Robertson, was the chair. The only surviving minutes are for meetings held on 8 June and 26 June 1926, and it is not clear whether any other meetings were held.
The committee considered provisional recommendations set out in the report of the Guild of Undergraduates to University Council and discussed matters of finance and the most suitable site for the building. The committee resolved to ask the representatives of the Guild of Undergraduates to prepare a statement on the Guild's income and expenditure, and to revise their scheme to indicate their essential and desirable requirements for accommodation. Minutes of the second meeting, on 24 June 1926, record details of the Guild of Undergraduates' representatives proposals for the accommodation required and the desired size of each of the listed rooms in the building. The committee decided that definite proposals for a site for a Students Union building could not be made unless additional land was acquired from the Calthorpe Estate
See UB/COM/16/3 for minutes of the Students Union Buildings committee, later known as the Guild of Undergraduates Buildings committee, from 16 November 1928 to 16 December 1930. Other records relating to the planning and construction of the Guild of Students building, completed in 1930, can be found within records of the Guild of Students, in particular papers relating to the work of the Union Commission established to prepare for the expansion and development of the Guild following the construction of the Union building at Edgbaston, UB/GUILD/C/2 |