Beaver House, Hythe Bridge Street

The site

Located at the gateway to Oxford City centre, and just 200 metres from Oxford railway station, Bridge Labs is an exceptional location.

The site is currently home to a 65,000 sq ft, 1970s office building and book storage facility.

The opportunity

The building will be extensively reimagined, reconfigured and extended to create a state-of-the-art laboratory building.

The reimagined building will offer approximately 140,000 sq ft net including basement, storage, (NIA) of purpose-built laboratory and office space that will form part of Oxford’s most sought-after life science cluster. The proposal also includes extensive public realm works and landscaping with new roof terraces, active streetscape and revitalised boat house and garden for community use.

Progress

UBS bought the long leasehold from Christ Church with development partner, Reef under The Forge Knowledge platform, Forge_Kn.

A planning application has been approved by Planning Committee in September 2024 to replace the two buildings with a new five-storey life sciences building.