We’re developing campuses for the future. Where possible we keep disruptive work to times that limit the impact on local residents, staff and students. With the size of some of the works we are doing this is not always possible. Keep up-to-date with current works and route changes on all our campuses.
Works updates
During the summer months of 2025, further work will take place to create a Woodland Trail to improve access between our Headington Hill site and Clive Booth Student Village. The scheme will provide an improved pedestrian link and access for students, staff and members of the local community. This will provide both an improved stepped route, as well as a step free-alternative.
The first phase of the project is currently expected to begin in July with an aim of completing the work by the start of the 2025-26 academic year.
The work taking place over the summer will be focused on a short existing pathway at the bottom of the Headington Hill site, which runs parallel to the University's gardeners’ compound. This will remove the current steps to create a more accessible route. While the works takes place the pathway will be closed, with signage in place for a short diversion near to the Richard Hamilton Building on the Headington Hill site.
A second phase to this project, which we expect to complete within the next 18 months, will introduce a new stepped walkway through a woodland area at the Headington Hill site, allowing pedestrians to take in the biodiversity of the campus.
Impact on the local community will be limited as it will take place on the University’s campus and won’t require any closure of Cuckoo Lane which runs between the Headington Hill site and Clive Booth Student Village.
This webpage will be updated with further information as the project develops. If you have any questions or queries in relation to this work, please email the Estates and Campus Services Projects Team via ecs-projects@brookes.ac.uk
Work will take place on the piazza space and western access route near to the John Henry Brookes Building at Headington Campus. We expect this project to begin in the coming months and once it starts will entail:
- replacement of the existing steel plates at the bottom of the piazza area which leads up to the John Henry Brookes building, near to the Headington Road. These ground plates will be replaced with appropriate new surfacing and help to reduce slip hazards.
- replacement of the bollards on the piazza and the western access route to improve the campus’ safety and security measures while making authorised access easier.
- drainage and cabling improvements while the works are taking place.
Access to the piazza will be maintained throughout the project, with only sections of the space being unavailable as part of a phased approach to the work.
At certain times, there may be noise while paving materials are moved across the piazza but the University will put measures in place to ensure that any potential impact is kept to a minimum.
This webpage will be updated with further information as the project develops. If you have any questions or queries in relation to this work, please email the Estates and Campus Services Projects Team via ecs-projects@brookes.ac.uk
Oxford Brookes received planning permission in June 2022 for two new buildings on the Headington Hill site. The new Teaching and Workshop buildings are cutting-edge, sustainable spaces allowing our students, staff and researchers to flourish, boosting local collaboration and meeting the needs of business.
The Teaching building opened in late January 2025 ahead of the start of Semester 2 of the 2024/25 academic year.
The new Workshop building on the site was formally handed over to the University in February 2025 and will open fully in the 2025/26 academic year
Further information on the development can be found on the project's dedicated webpage.
Oxford Brookes received planning permission in November 2021 for the redevelopment of Clive Booth Student Village. The project is providing an increased number of high-quality rooms within the University’s estate. This is helping to reduce the number of students living in private rented accommodation and support efforts to manage local housing demand.
The Elm Building was the first new building opened as part of the redevelopment of Clive Booth Student Village and welcomed its first residents in January 2024. The new Fir and Damson buildings became home to Oxford Brookes students from the start of the 2024/25 academic year. A Nisa retail outlet, located in the Fir building, is due to open during summer 2025.
Information on further progress with Cherry building, and additional redevelopment of Clive Booth Student Village as whole, will be added to these webpages in due course.
Further information on the development can be found on the project's dedicated webpage.