A Launceston ratepayers group has called on the University of Tasmania to rethink its campus move from Newnham to Inveresk citing flood mitigation concerns.
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The Northern Tasmania Network Partners group, headed by Launceston architect Lionel Morell, has made the calls after the group commissioned its own independent review into flood and seismic risk.
"We are not against the university reforming itself, we have to modernise our universities," Mr Morell said.
However, UTAS says they are confident they can mitigate the flood risk and other challenges the site possesses and will forge ahead with the plans for the $260 million campus.
Launceston ratepayer and researcher Chris Penna was commissioned to conduct the report for the Network after sparking a personal interest in UTAS' business case.
Mr Penna said he came into the project "an independent" but said he quickly became concerned as he compiled the report because he "could find no data to support the assertions being made."
He said he was unable to find evidence or any comparison of the risks related to the Inveresk move, compared to the "sensible" alternative, to stay at the Newnham site.
A business case for the UTAS Inveresk campus is expected to be lodged in June after it missed its original deadline of the end of 2018.
Launceston-based pro-vice-chancellor Dom Geraghty said UTAS was confident they could work through the challenges of the site.
"We are confident in the ability of contemporary engineering to design flood resilient buildings here in Launceston, as is done in cities and towns around the globe.
"It is important to design and build - and crucially to innovate - in places just like Inveresk," he said.
"The challenges we are grappling with here, in a city at the confluence of two rivers, are challenges facing more and more communities around the world as climate change impacts the planet."
Mr Morell and Mr Penna said they did not have an issue with UTAS plan, but rather the location and urged them to undertake a full public inquiry into the benefits.
Mr Penna said more evidence and documents needed to be made public to ensure the community had a clearer understanding of the implications of the move.
"It's fairly obvious that buildings can be designed to cope with issues such as the sedimentary materials they are being built and with potential flooding but this does not negate a lot of the other issues," he said.
Those issues include the evacuation of the campus in the event of a flood and also the plans for the existing buildings UTAS already occupies at Inveresk.