PLANS for a £60m quad at a new site of Keble College are set to be approved.
The college has proposed the scheme on land off Banbury Road, next to the former Acland private hospital.
It will include a new cafe, gym and a 120-seat lecture theatre, as well as 230 graduate rooms and new research facilities.
Entrances to the site will be in both Banbury and Woodstock roads.
Keble College has said the project would be the largest since its founding in 1870, with strong links to both Oxford University’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter and the science area near Parks Road.
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If a planning committee of Oxford City Council approves the plans on Tuesday night, construction could be finished by late 2018.
The designs are the work of the late Rick Mather, the architect responsible for the £61m redevelopment of the Ashmolean Museum and two other buildings for Keble on its main site off St Giles’. At the development’s heart will be the college’s Advanced Studies Centre, which encourages collaboration between researchers of different disciplines to help new innovations.
The Grade II-listed Acland Nursing Home, designed by Victorian architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, would become part of the new quad.
The committee meeting will take place at 6.30pm in Oxford Town Hall.
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