Harwell Science and Innovation Limited Partnership has secured planning consent for 192,523 sq ft of new floorspace at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.
The space will be split across two new buildings – Co:LABS and Quad Three. Co:LABS is the first phase of a new innovation quarter, which will deliver circa 35,000 sq m (circa 377,000 sq ft) of employment space.
Construction is due to commence on site this month and the new space is expected to complete by the end of 2025.
Stuart Grant, CEO of Harwell Campus, said: “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.”
Steven Roberts, associate partner at Carter Jonas in Oxford, which helped secure planning consent, added: “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.”
The wider project team included Allies and Morrison, Hawkins Brown, Exterior Architecture Landscape, Baynham Meikle, RPS, Hoare Lea and BSP.
