Creating the community of the future
Oxford's new innovation district: a sustainable place to work, live, learn and socialise.
Oxford North is a new innovation district for the city, specifically masterplanned, designed and being built to enable discovery.
Delivering one million sq ft of labs and workspaces, 480 new homes, hotel, nursery, amenities, three new public parks and significant investment in travelling around sustainably, it will be a community engaged in creating a better future.
Oxford North will connect academia and commerce, invention and investment.
Welcome to a unique new home and workplace for scientists, technologists, and inventors, transforming lives and enhancing one of the world’s greatest cities.
Delivering new labs, workspaces and homes alongside amenities, public art, culture, hotel and leisure.
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Enabling life-changing discovery
We’re in a city for the curious, a home to the inventive, a place never afraid to welcome the challengers and disruptors, the heroes and heretics.
Oxford has a proud history of firsts, from the invention of penicillin to the COVID-19 response, connecting the world’s greatest minds making innovations today to change our world tomorrow.
We’re building a new place and laboratories in Oxford to help accelerate future discoveries.
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Centre of academic excellence
For centuries, Oxford has provided a world-class home for research and creation.
It’s home to both the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, and the John Radcliffe Hospital, which is part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK.
For the eighth consecutive year running, the University of Oxford has been ranked the World’s Best University 2023 by Times Higher Education.
Oxford North will support discovery for years to come as an exciting extension to one of the world’s most famous cities.
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New advanced R&D Labs in one of the world’s greatest cities.
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Consultation
We are now developing our plans for future phases and will continue with our public consultation work.
With outline masterplan and detailed phase 1a planning permission granted in March 2021, the first phases of labs, workspace, new homes, public park, new road, and sustainable drainage ponds are being delivered.
Recently we held a four-week public consultation on phase 2’s emerging designs for three new laboratories. The consultation closed on 8 December 2022.
You can read our Public Consultation Feedback Document_Phase 2 document for what you said and what we’re doing.
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