AS many of your readers will be aware, last July the University of Oxford was granted outline planning permission for the proposed development at the Old Road/Park Hospital campus.

Prior to the submission and subsequent approval of the planning application, a number of public consultation events were held in order to ensure that our neighbours and interested parties had an opportunity to be properly informed regarding the proposed development.

We are now considering the first phase of development. The specific buildings being proposed are the Big Data Institute – which will develop approaches for generating, storing and analysing large datasets in medical science for a better understanding of human disease and its treatment – and the Amenities Building, which would serve the whole campus.

We would like to share our plans with local residents and also obtain their feedback. Therefore we have arranged two public consultation events, scheduled for Friday, March 28, 4-7pm, and Saturday, March 29, 10am-1pm, at the Old Road Campus Research Building (the Green Building), off Roosevelt Drive, Headington.

Several members of the university team, including our consultants, will be attending these meetings to provide more information and answer any queries. We look forward to welcoming all interested parties to these events.

CAROLYN PUDDICOMBE
Director of Asset and Space Management
University of Oxford Estates Services
The Malthouse
Tidmarsh Lane
Oxford