UNDER THE HILLS, BUT NOT UNDER THE RADAR

Royal Agricultural University launches vision for £100m Innovation Village

A concept for a sustainable, carbon neutral, innovation village which will become home to a community committed to addressing major global challenges, has been announced by the Royal Agricultural University.

The proposed £100 million development, on a 29-acre site at the University’s Cirencester campus, aims to support industry, food producers, farmers and landowners.

The site will include a research and innovation centre, live/work residential units, business start-up and support spaces, as well as business and conferencing facilities.

The university says that cluster development of this nature, applied to agriculture, food and land management, does not exist in the UK and the initiative already has the support of the Department of International Trade, Gloucestershire County Council and its Local Enterprise Partnership.

Science parks across the region

ARC Oxford (formerly Oxford Business Park North)

Culhum Science Centre, Oxford

Gloucestershire Science and Technology Park, Berkeley Green

Begbroke Science Park, Oxford

Bristol & Bath Science Park, Emersons Green

Coventry University Technology Park, Coventry

Harwell, Abingdon

Malvern Hills Science Park, Worcestershire

Malvern Hills Science Park opened in 1999 as part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), now called QinetiQ.

While QinetiQ became an independent business in 2003, and is now a major employer in the town, Malvern Hills Science Park has since expanded independently.

It now o ers 100,000 sq ft of o ce and laboratory space on the 10-acre site and is home to around 40 companies employing around 400 people.

Many tenant companies operate in the area of cyber security, but others on the park are active in agri-tech and life sciences.

Milton Park, Abingdon

Oxford Technology Park, Kidlington

The Oxford Science Park

University of Warwick Science Park, Warwick

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