Oxfordshire's Harwell Campus set to expand further with two new buildings

Oxfordshire's Harwell Campus is set to expand further with planning permission granted for two new buildings, potentially adding 300 new jobs to the site.

Consent was secured on June 26 this year by consultancy Carter Jonas on behalf of the campus for 17, 886 sq m of new employment floorspace in two new buildings - Quad Three and Co:LABSs.

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Construction is due to begin this month and anticipated to complete at the end of 2025.

"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," said Stuart Grant, the CEO of Harwell Campus.

"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, 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."

Harwell lies 16 miles south of Oxford is a world renowned UK Science and Technology Campus. It benefits from over £3bn of science infrastructure, including the UK’s national synchrotron facility the Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron facility. Around 7,000 research and support staff work across some 250 organisations there.

Notably, the additional jobs are set to make a considerable contribution to the Vale of White Horse council’s employment growth strategy.