OXFORD CITY COUNCIL has approved plans for an Oxford University research facility on the site of an old hospital in Headington. The Park Hospital buildings were bought from the NHS last year. The University is planning to demolish them to create 48,000 square metres of research space.
According to an Oxford University spokesman, “world leading” research will take place in the new development. Professor Rodney Phillips of the University’s Medical Sciences Division said that “the site offers great prospects for expanding the University’s world leading medical research.”
Professor Phillips stressed that the plans will also benefit local residents: “Patients at the nearby hospitals will have first access to clinical trials and new drugs and they will be treated by world-leading medical researchers.”
It will take 20 to 25 years for the new plans take shape.
