OXFORD University has revealed more details of its plan to redevelop a 28-acre site in Headington.

The plans could see the 126-year-old former Park Hospital building knocked down and the site redeveloped.

Five plots within the site, which sits next to the university’s existing Old Road campus, have been identified for development. One will be used as a car park.

The university is planning to create a centre for biomedical research that will be linked to the £57m redevelopment of the neighbouring campus.

Suzanne White, a planning consultant for the university, said: “There will be smaller buildings on the boundaries of the site and taller buildings in the middle. There are quite a lot of trees and we want to maintain a ‘green spine’ through the campus.”

Bickerton Road resident Pat Whitehouse said of the planned development: “I know it has got to be somewhere, but Headington is getting a bit full of buildings.

“I am pleased they are consulting on this but what worries me is the traffic.”

The university was given planning permission for the Old Road campus redevelopment, which is currently under way, last year.

John Cracknell, a transport consultant for the university, said: “We are trying to capitalise on the fact that development in the area such as the Thornhill Park and Ride are expanding.

“We will try to encourage greater use of that.”

The building, which dates from 1886, was bought by the Warneford Hospital in 1933 and then became the Park Hospital. In 2009 it became Boundary Brook House and is used for child and adolescent mental health services.

The university, which is in the final stages of buying the site, hopes to submit a planning application in July.