An exciting new phase of development is about to start at the Harwell Oxford campus where over 200 businesses work alongside some of the world’s leading scientific facilities, including the Diamond Light Source, Central Laser Facility and ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source.

Construction plans for a new Hi-Tech Terrace have been brought forward due to significant demand from businesses wanting to join the Harwell campus and benefit from the unique range of scientific capabilities and specialist, state-of-the-art facilities available.

It will be the sixth major new development at Harwell in two years, providing a rare opportunity for the county’s businesses to join this globally-significant campus-based community. Work is due to start early in 2015 and be completed that summer.

Duncan Rogers, Property and Development Director at Harwell Oxford, said: “While the wider property market has been in recession, Harwell has continued to grow because of the unique nature and range of facilities on offer to the global scientific community and the diverse range of businesses located here. Demand from the business and scientific community has been so strong that we have accelerated our plans to build a new Hi-Tech Terrace and incorporate them into phase one of our master plan for the development of the wider campus.”

The new Hi-Tech Terrace will provide 2,730 sq m (29,500 sq ft) which will be divided into bespoke units of different sizes over ground and mezzanine levels to suit the specific needs of incoming tenants.

The units can be fitted out for a wide range of purposes, including light engineering, research and development, dry laboratory, assembly, clean rooms and administrative activities. The building will have external roller loading access points, communal reception lobby and meeting area, accessed from a spinal corridor.

David Williams, a Director at Meeson Williams Phillips, who is marketing the Hi-Tech Terrace jointly with Lambert Smith Hampton, said: “This provides businesses with a fantastic opportunity to create a working environment which meets their individual needs while aligning themselves with over 200 space, science and technology businesses already flourishing on the Harwell Oxford campus.

“We are already experiencing strong demand from businesses based elsewhere in the county as well as national and international companies looking to forge strategic links with Harwell.”

Harwell Oxford is a world-renowned 710 acre site in South Oxfordshire. Aerospace and space, telecommunications, big data, green energy, physical sciences, mechanical engineering, material science, cryogenics, biosciences, automotive and lasers, are among the sectors represented and around 5,000 people are employed on site.

Construction of the new Hi-Tech Terrace will be closely followed by an Innovation Hub, Discovery Centre, restaurant, gym and large pre-let design and build facilities.

Harwell Oxford’s Masterplan has Enterprise Zone status and provides for nearly one million square feet of development, including 200 new homes for staff on campus as well as leisure facilities and a hotel.

Ian Wenman, Deputy Chair at the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP), said: “Harwell Oxford is a key part of our Enterprise Zone and a prime location for the potential future growth of our county. This has been clearly recognised by Central Government and makes it so very important for the future wealth of our county. The site needs a development to do justice to its heritage as a site of scientific discovery and that is what the new Hi-Tech Terrace sets out to do so well.”

Meeson Williams Phillips and Lambert Smith Hampton are acting as joint agents. Leases are available on flexible, all inclusive terms. To find out more about the opportunities, please visit www.meesonwilliamsphillips.com or contact David Williams at dw@meesonwilliamsphillips.com or Kevin Wood at kwood@lsh.co.uk