Planning permission has been secured for two new buildings at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus which will accommodate more than 300 new jobs.
The new employment floorspace will span 192,523 sq ft and will be located across Quad Three and Co:LABS.
Co:LABS is the first phase of a new innovation quarter that will create around 35,000 sqm of employment floorspace in Harwell, while Quad Three is a new addition to the existing Quad.
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."
National property consultancy Carter Jonas secured the planning consent on behalf of Harwell Science and Innovation Limited Partnership.
Steven Roberts, associate partner at Carter Jonas in Oxford, added: "Carter Jonas is proud to have assisted Harwell Campus Partnership in securing planning permission for new facility.
"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."
Both new and existing users of the science and innovation campus will benefit from extensive landscaping.
The Section 106 Agreement delivers measures to optimise bus travel, reducing the use of the private car.
Harwell Campus, located about five miles southwest of Didcot and 16 miles south of Oxford, is a globally renowned UK Science and Technology Campus.
It currently houses around 7,000 research and support staff, spread across 250 organisations and benefits from more than £3 billion of science infrastructure, including the UK’s national synchrotron facility the Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron facility.
Carter Jonas has advised its client from the inception of the project, leading a multi-discipline consultant team through the planning process.
The team will continue to advise on all planning matters for the development until completion at the end of 2025, with construction due to begin on site in August.
The property consultancy worked alongside a number of organisations including Oxfordshire County Council, the Vale of White Horse District Council and National Highways to gain planning permission.
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