Warneford Park Pre-planning application consultation

Welcome

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s Warneford Hospital is the oldest mental health inpatient hospital still in use across the NHS. Staff continue to provide compassionate care in a Grade II listed building that hasn't changed much from when it was built 200 years ago. We have ambitious plans to redevelop it and would like to share them with you and get your feedback.

Planning application process

To build Warneford Park we need planning permission. We are now conducting our first public consultation phase as part of the pre-planning application process. This stage is to seek the views of the public, staff and patients on our outline proposals before we develop our plans in greater detail .

Please find out how to get involved and share your thoughts on our plans to re-develop the Warneford Hospital site.

Our proposals

Building on the special history of the site and its surroundings, our proposal for Warneford Park is to bring together a unique combination of:

  • A new innovative mental health hospital, offering the best treatment, care and therapeutic environment.
  • A research centre for the world-leading brain research taking place at the University of Oxford, co-located with private sector 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.

Our approach will be to conserve and enhance the most outstanding historic landscape features and provide new buildings elsewhere on the overall site. The new hospital will be built with the latest, environmentally sustainable materials. Patients and staff have also contributed to the design process to ensure internal and external space is used for maximum therapeutic benefit and supports the latest models of care.

To bring this vision to life, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are working in partnership with the University of Oxford and a partner.

Get involved

We would like local residents, organisations and key stakeholders to get involved and share their feedback, so that the plans for Warneford Park meet people's needs in the best way possible. This can be done in a number of ways:

These events and activities aim to gather valuable insights and feedback, on the proposed redevelopment. We would like to work together with you, to explore relevant issues and the guiding principles for the redevelopment.

Deadline for feedback is 5pm on Monday, 30 September 2024.

Next steps

Once we have heard your views during this initial consultation, your feedback will be used to develop more detailed proposals. The timescales for this second public consultation phase will be dependent upon what feedback and learning we get from this first consultation: we want to get it right.

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


Welcome

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust’s Warneford Hospital is the oldest mental health inpatient hospital still in use across the NHS. Staff continue to provide compassionate care in a Grade II listed building that hasn't changed much from when it was built 200 years ago. We have ambitious plans to redevelop it and would like to share them with you and get your feedback.

Planning application process

To build Warneford Park we need planning permission. We are now conducting our first public consultation phase as part of the pre-planning application process. This stage is to seek the views of the public, staff and patients on our outline proposals before we develop our plans in greater detail .

Please find out how to get involved and share your thoughts on our plans to re-develop the Warneford Hospital site.

Our proposals

Building on the special history of the site and its surroundings, our proposal for Warneford Park is to bring together a unique combination of:

  • A new innovative mental health hospital, offering the best treatment, care and therapeutic environment.
  • A research centre for the world-leading brain research taking place at the University of Oxford, co-located with private sector 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.

Our approach will be to conserve and enhance the most outstanding historic landscape features and provide new buildings elsewhere on the overall site. The new hospital will be built with the latest, environmentally sustainable materials. Patients and staff have also contributed to the design process to ensure internal and external space is used for maximum therapeutic benefit and supports the latest models of care.

To bring this vision to life, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust are working in partnership with the University of Oxford and a partner.

Get involved

We would like local residents, organisations and key stakeholders to get involved and share their feedback, so that the plans for Warneford Park meet people's needs in the best way possible. This can be done in a number of ways:

These events and activities aim to gather valuable insights and feedback, on the proposed redevelopment. We would like to work together with you, to explore relevant issues and the guiding principles for the redevelopment.

Deadline for feedback is 5pm on Monday, 30 September 2024.

Next steps

Once we have heard your views during this initial consultation, your feedback will be used to develop more detailed proposals. The timescales for this second public consultation phase will be dependent upon what feedback and learning we get from this first consultation: we want to get it right.

Once the second consultation phase is complete, a planning application will be submitted to Oxford City Council in 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.

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  • Why do you need to build a new hospital?

    13 days ago

    The Grade II listed Warneford Hospital is the oldest inpatient unit still in use across the whole of the NHS and was deemed ‘not fit for purpose’ by the Care Quality Commission in 2016. Many bedrooms are narrow, lack ensuite facilities and lack the therapeutic space so crucial to patient recovery. 

    The existing hospital is difficult for staff to operate within, and the care delivered is good despite the building rather than being helped by it. We want to provide a working environment that is good for our staff and enables them to provide the best possible care. This is also important for recruitment and retention of staff. 

    proposed plans
    proposed plans

  • Have patients and local people been consulted and involved in the plans?

    13 days ago

    Our staff and former patients have worked with the team of architects to design the best possible environment. There will also be public consultation activities e.g. online engagement platform, face-to-face drop-in sessions during September and an online webinar to present the proposed plans and allow time for questions. Members of the public, staff, MPs, councillors and near neighbours have been encouraged to share their views with us.  The Trust is also holding periodic engagement with the local residents and other near neighbours.

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    engagement

  • What is the plan for Warneford Park?

    13 days ago

    Our proposal is to bring together a unique combination of:

    • A new innovative mental health hospital, offering the best treatment, care, and therapeutic environment.
    • A research centre, for the world-leading brain research taking place at the University of Oxford, co-located with private sector biotech, pharmaceutical and start-up companies.
    •  A new post-graduate college for the University of Oxford focused on medical sciences, bio-engineering
    proposed plans
    proposed plans

  • Have you got funding for the project?

    13 days ago

    The hospital is dependent upon public funding. This has not yet been confirmed, although the Trust is already in discussions with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care. We are conscious of the many competing demands for public capital investment at this time but are confident that this opportunity offers not only the improvements to healthcare but also many wider economic benefits which will make a difference to the nation.

    funding
    funding

  • Why add yet another hospital to the Headington area which is already so congested?

    13 days ago

    We are not adding another hospital but renewing a hospital that has been there for 200 years. We are very aware of the challenges with traffic in the area and our travel plan will take this into account.

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    transport
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