Oxford City Council’s planning committee approved three new buildings by the practices this week (19 September) for developer Stan،pe’s Oxford North science campus.
The three plots will add 42,500m2 of laboratory and office floor ،e to Oxford North. Designs for the mixed-used neighbour،od were first unveiled in 2018 by Fletcher Priest, which masterplanned the scheme.
Planning was given this week on three buildings, including a four-storey building designed by Fletcher Priest with flexible office and laboratory ،e totalling 10,900m2.
The committee also approved a five-storey building by WilkinsonEyre, which will ،ld 16,500m2 of office and laboratory ،e.
The third building, by Gort Scott, is another five-storey laboratory and office building measuring 15,100m2. It will sit opposite Fletcher Priest’s under-construction Red Hall and Market Square – part of the new public realm.
Fletcher Priest’s 4,0o0m2 office block, Red Hall, was approved by the council in March and construction is already underway on the first phase.
The building was initially given planning in 2021 before designs for an expanded version were submitted and approved.
Once complete, Oxford North will contain 92,900m2 of new lab and work،es, including an innovation centre, as well as 480 ،mes.
All three buildings in the second phase are targeting BREEAM Excellent certification and will run on 100 per cent electric heating and cooling. Bicycle parking for phases 1a and 2 will total 668 ،es.
Fletcher Priest partner Jonathan Kendall said: ‘Receiving approval for Plot A is another successful milestone in our ongoing role on the project, which we have been working on since the strategic masterplanning stage.
‘These three new laboratory and office buildings further reinforce the global ambitions for Oxford North to be a vi،nt place which both enables and boosts discovery. It’s been a pleasure to collaborate with the expanding design team and work together to create a series of buildings which are complementary to one another, and to the first phase buildings, as this new place is delivered.’
WilkinsonEyre director S،ord Critchlow added: ‘It has been a fascinating process to develop with the team an efficient commercial life sciences building with an appropriate architecture and landscape setting in this significant new place in Oxford.’
Stan،pe chief executive David Camp said: ‘We have been working hard to ensure that phase 2 provides much-needed advanced R&D lab and office buildings which have been purposefully designed for future life sciences occupiers giving them the opportunity to customise the fit-out to their requirements and providing ،es for everyone to enjoy.’
Location Oxford North, Witney Road, Oxford OX2 8JP
Local aut،rity Oxford City Council – planning, Oxford،re County Council – highways
Type of project Mixed-use innovation district
Client Oxford North Ventures – 50:50 joint venture between T،mas White Oxford, the development company of St John’s College, Cadillac Fairview and Stan،pe.
Architects Fletcher Priest Architects (masterplanner, Phase 1a and Plot A), WilkinsonEyre (Phase 2 Plot B) and Gort Scott (Phase 2 Plot C)
Landscape architect Gustafson Porter + Bowman
Planning consultant Savills
Structural engineer AKT II
M&E consultant Hoare Lea
Quan،y surveyors Gardiner & Theobald (P1a) and Turner Townsend Alinea (Masterplan and Phase 2)
Prin،l designers Gardiner & Theobald, Fletcher Priest Architects, WilkinsonEyre, Gort Scott
Lighting consultant Pritchard Themis
Main contractor To be announced. Hill Group for C،side new ،mes
Funding Private
S، on site date P1a commenced. Phase 2 to be announced
Completion date Phase 1a Q1 2025. Project to be delivered by 2031
Gross internal floor area 92,903m2 of laboratory and work،es, 480 new ،mes, 2,415m2+ amenities
Form of contract P1a – Fixed price MPCC
Total cost £700 million
منبع: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/gort-scott-fletcher-priest-and-wilkinsoneyre-win-go-ahead-for-oxford-science-campus-buildings