Oxford North will deliver one million sq ft of new labs and workspaces for circa 4,500 people along with 480 new and affordable homes, a hotel, nursery, shops, bars and cafes and three public parks.

Oxford North is a new global innovation district being built on 64 acres of land within Oxford city’s northern boundary.
The new place starts with people, their ideas and ambitions. It’s being built to celebrate and enable them, providing a place for people who want to make their mark on the world.
Oxford North will connect academia and commerce, invention and investment, providing a sustainable place to work, live, learn and socialise. Oxford North will be a thriving and vibrant new district with innovation and sustainability at its heart.
The project, masterplanned by Fletcher Priest Architects, will deliver one million sq ft of new labs and workspaces including a new innovation centre, and 480 new homes. Around 4,500 people will work there alongside 1,500 residents and who, along with the local community and visitors, will enjoy amenities including a hotel, nursery, shops, bars and cafes, three public parks, and significant investment in travelling around sustainably.
The new district will be a unique home and workplace, for scientists, technologists and inventors, transforming lives and enhancing one of the world’s greatest cities.
Setting a new standard for placemaking, Oxford North will blend culture with low carbon innovation, sustainability with leisure, and open spaces with science. It offers a new model for the future, supporting business, enabling discovery and, above all, improving lives, all in one place.
With access to wide open public spaces and public art throughout, Oxford North is configured to enhance wellbeing. The landscape is designed to enhance biodiversity across the newly-created public parks and facilitate access to nature for residents and visitors.
Woven into the new public parks are spaces for entertainment, events and exercise. Integral to the plans are areas for families and children to enjoy natural play while opening eyes and discovering the future.
At every turn there will be opportunities for enjoyment, delight and new perspectives.

“With Cadillac Fairview, we came on board this exciting and globally ambitious project in March 2022. The project had received approval for the outline masterplan and detailed consent for the first phase of commercial space. The first buildings will deliver 145,000 sq ft of the one million sq ft of new space for science and tech occupiers. It includes the Red Hall, Oxford’s newest innovation centre, two lab and workspace buildings and the first of three new public parks.
“With an ever-changing world, the only constant is change. So we are moving fast to ensure that we can deliver to meet the high demand from companies needing space in Oxford. We are demonstrating that we’re building sustainably, creating new jobs during the construction phases which have positive impacts on people’s lives, and that our future phase plans meet the way that we all live, work, learn and play.
“We are creating and curating Oxford’s new innovation district to ensure that we connect academia and industry so that all-important collaboration and serendipity moments can flourish, and that we create a place which is designed specifically to help retain and attract talent.
“We strongly believe that where there is opportunity, there is also great responsibility. Together with the College with its 500+ years of heritage and through Thomas White Oxford, this new place has to deliver social value and community benefits as much as buildings and places which enable life-enhancing discovery which can solve humanity’s greatest challenges.
“It’s no mean feat but it’s such a significant project with which to be involved and we are proud to bring all our experience of placemaking and development to deliver this new place.”
Adam Smith, Development Director, Oxford North - Stanhope