Warneford Park Pre-planning application consultation

Thank you

Firstly, we would like to thank everyone for your interest and involvement in September 2024 during our first consultation phase. We really appreciated the detailed conversations we had with you which gave us rich and helpful insights into how we move forward with our plans and designs.

The engagement report for phase one summarises the key feedback, ideas and suggestions received from everyone that took part.


Phase Two

We would now like to invite you to get involved in our second phase of the pre-planning application consultation for Warneford Park.

Our revised proposals have been developed to take into account your feedback shared so far. This second phase of consultation includes exhibition events and a survey to present these revised plans in more detail and hear your views. We would also like to explain how we are responding to your feedback.


The proposals – a summary

For those that have not been involved in phase one, or who would like a reminder of our proposals:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are working in partnership with the University of Oxford and a partner to develop a major brain health research and innovation campus. This will include:

  • a new mental health hospital, offering the best treatment, care, and therapeutic environment.
  • a modern scientific facility for the world-leading brain research taking place at the University of Oxford, with additional space for biotech, pharmaceutical and start-up companies.
  • a new post-graduate college for the University of Oxford focused on medical sciences, bio-engineering and related disciplines.

Read more about the revised proposals.


Get Involved

We would like to encourage local residents, organisations and key stakeholders to get involved once again and share their feedback, so that we can understand whether the revised plans for Warneford Park meet people's needs in the best way possible.

The deadline for feedback is 5pm on Friday 10 January 2025.


  • Answer our online survey (coming soon) about the revised proposals for Warneford Park. This is also available to download and print as a hard copy version.
  • Read questions and answers about the proposals that have been shared through phase one and submit any new questions that you would like answered.
  • Attend one of our drop-in exhibition engagement events on the 5, 6 or 7 December at the Warneford Hospital.
  • Sign up to our newsletter to keep informed and updated on engagement opportunities and progress of the plans for Warneford Park.

These events and activities aim to gather valuable insights and feedback on the proposed redevelopment from a wide variety of stakeholders to ensure we get these revised proposals right.

Once the second consultation phase is complete, the feedback will inform the planning application that will be submitted to Oxford City Council in Spring 2025.

Thank you

Firstly, we would like to thank everyone for your interest and involvement in September 2024 during our first consultation phase. We really appreciated the detailed conversations we had with you which gave us rich and helpful insights into how we move forward with our plans and designs.

The engagement report for phase one summarises the key feedback, ideas and suggestions received from everyone that took part.


Phase Two

We would now like to invite you to get involved in our second phase of the pre-planning application consultation for Warneford Park.

Our revised proposals have been developed to take into account your feedback shared so far. This second phase of consultation includes exhibition events and a survey to present these revised plans in more detail and hear your views. We would also like to explain how we are responding to your feedback.


The proposals – a summary

For those that have not been involved in phase one, or who would like a reminder of our proposals:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are working in partnership with the University of Oxford and a partner to develop a major brain health research and innovation campus. This will include:

  • a new mental health hospital, offering the best treatment, care, and therapeutic environment.
  • a modern scientific facility for the world-leading brain research taking place at the University of Oxford, with additional space for biotech, pharmaceutical and start-up companies.
  • a new post-graduate college for the University of Oxford focused on medical sciences, bio-engineering and related disciplines.

Read more about the revised proposals.


Get Involved

We would like to encourage local residents, organisations and key stakeholders to get involved once again and share their feedback, so that we can understand whether the revised plans for Warneford Park meet people's needs in the best way possible.

The deadline for feedback is 5pm on Friday 10 January 2025.


  • Answer our online survey (coming soon) about the revised proposals for Warneford Park. This is also available to download and print as a hard copy version.
  • Read questions and answers about the proposals that have been shared through phase one and submit any new questions that you would like answered.
  • Attend one of our drop-in exhibition engagement events on the 5, 6 or 7 December at the Warneford Hospital.
  • Sign up to our newsletter to keep informed and updated on engagement opportunities and progress of the plans for Warneford Park.

These events and activities aim to gather valuable insights and feedback on the proposed redevelopment from a wide variety of stakeholders to ensure we get these revised proposals right.

Once the second consultation phase is complete, the feedback will inform the planning application that will be submitted to Oxford City Council in Spring 2025.

Q & A

Questions and answers about the new proposals for the Warneford site are shown in this section.  If you have any questions please submit them below. Questions will be reviewed and answered publicly or privately as appropriate.

You can search the questions and answers using the search box or by clicking on the relevant category label below.

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  • Will representatives from the project team report back to the community with a detailed audit trail showing how consultation responses have been/will be considered during the preparation of the planning application?

    21 days ago

    Yes, we will publish a Statement of Community Involvement report which will set out what engagement we have undertaken, the key findings and how we have responded.

    We are providing answers to questions that we have received and posting them online for everyone’s benefit.

    Additionally, when we hold our second consultation we will set out the key themes where we had questions and provide more detail on those topics.

    We believe that the above approach will enable everyone to see the audit trail from question to response.

  • The issue of access and cycling support – what, where, when, how?

    21 days ago

    High quality cycle parking, changing, showers, and lockers will be provided across the site, with potential discounts for cycling clothing and equipment for staff. Cycle improvements to the Roosevelt Drive / Old Road junction are proposed as part of the scheme.

  • Why are there not going to be more hospital beds than currently provided?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • Are the number of beds in the new hospital adequate?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • Please clarify the capacity of the proposed new hospital to treat local people and in particular younger people between 16 and 25 years. There is a shortfall in the provision of mental health service for this group and it is not clear how the proposed development would reduce that shortfall.

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • Will phase 3 require the closure and move of the Highfield adolescent unit? There has been a lot of investment in this service recently. Is this investment going to be wasted?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • Why have adolescents been excluded from the long-term plans for the Warneford Park Development?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • Was an options assessment undertaken to consider whether this development could be located elsewhere?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • What are we doing to make the development highly resilient to climate change?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

  • The Community Dental Service currently see all inpatients across the Wards on both sites at our base in East Oxford Dental Clinic. However, on rare occasions they would need to go onto wards for Domiciliary visits should then patient have an emergency and/or unable to travel to our clinics. With the proposed plans for Warneford Hospital we assume treatment rooms will be included and if so they are big enough for dentists to attend and treat patients, with their equipment etc?

    1 day ago

    Answer to be confirmed

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