Two new buildings set for groundbreaking science facility
Carter Jonas have secured planning consent to create new employment floorspace and the potential to accommodate over 300 new jobs at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.
The new floorspace will be located in two new buildings, one is known as Quad Three and Co:LABSs. The latter is the first phase of an exciting new innovation quarter, which will deliver circa 35,000 sqm of new employment floorspace. The plan has been created to contribute to the Vale of White Horse Council’s employment growth strategy.
Plans are set to benefit both new and existing users of the leading science and innovation campus due to extensive landscaping. The Section 106 Agreement delivers measures to optimise bus travel, reducing the use of the private car.
‘Carter Jonas is proud to have assisted Harwell Campus Partnership in securing planning permission for the new facility,’ Steven Roberts, associate partner at Carter Jonas in Oxford, said. ‘Harwell Campus is an extremely important, internationally recognised science and technology cluster where many scientific breakthroughs have occurred in recent years. We very much value our ongoing relationship with the Campus Partnership and are proud to be part of the professional team that is shaping its future.’
In addition to being the home of major scientific breakthroughs, the campus also benefits from over £3bn of science infrastructure, including the UK’s national synchrotron facility the Diamond Light Source. Approximately 7,000 research and support staff work across some 250 organisations operating at the campus.
Stuart Grant, CEO of Harwell Campus, added: ‘We’re delighted to have secured planning permission for Co:LABS and Quad Three as part of our wider plan to triple the amount of available space at Harwell over the coming years.
‘Given that Oxford University is spinning out more companies than anywhere else in the UK and other local universities like Cranfield are closing fast, we need to ensure we can offer the right space, environment, and home for these exciting companies to start-up, scale-up and have truly global impact.’
Construction of the new site is set to begin this month and will hopefully be completed by the end of 2025. During this period, Carter Jonas have announced they will advise on all planning matters.
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