Complex sentence: The hall and its grounds were for many years used as a campus of De Montfort University and its predecessors, but was closed in 2003, this is to be redeveloped as a brown field site for housing, and is home to Peverill manor.
Split into simpler sentences: The hall and its grounds were for many years used as a campus of De Montfort University and its predecessors, but was closed in 2003. It is to be redeveloped as a brown field site for housing, and is home to Peverill manor.