With new international occupiers and prestigious new buildings, Oxfordshire’s Milton Park has got off to a flying start in the first quarter of 2025. The arrival of two new companies, Nuvia and TreQ, has coincided with the opening of Nebula, a new £40 million R&D facility.
Global nuclear engineering firm Nuvia, part of the Paris-based Vinci Group, has taken up bespoke office space at Milton Park for its 70-strong team of experts working in the construction, operation and decommissioning of nuclear projects and the production of medical isotopes. The firm, which has 2,800 employees worldwide, has added 100 people to its team in the last year and selected Oxfordshire as the location to continue its growth plans. It chose Milton Park for the location’s growing cluster of life science and green energy occupiers such as nuclear fusion specialists Tokamak Energy and says it feels well placed to capitalise on the talent and wider ecosystem from its new base.
“Staying within Oxfordshire was important for us due to the county’s prominence in the UK’s nuclear, science and technology sectors,” says Greg Antill, Nuvia’s Health Physics Director. “The region is a real hub for the nuclear sector.”
Meanwhile, US-based quantum computing start-up TreQ has chosen Milton Park for its UK production facility, following an oversubscribed $5 million seed funding round. TreQ builds innovative open-architecture quantum systems that are upgradable and extensible, enabling companies, universities and research entities to unlock quantum computing’s transformative potential. It plans to build its first quantum computer under the TreQ brand at the new facility this year. The company has a core team of highly-experienced engineers and chose to begin operations here because Oxfordshire is the centre for national initiatives to commercialise quantum.
TreQ’s CEO, Mandy Birch spoke warmly of the move-in experience: “The Milton Park team helped us find the space we needed, and worked with us every step of the way.”
More workspace has recently become available at Milton Park with the completion of the £40 million Nebula development, offering seven sustainable R&D workspaces totalling nearly 80,000 sq ft. The building was officially welcomed by Lord Vallance, the UK Science Minister and official Oxford-Cambridge innovation champion. One of the first occupants is the iconic motorbike company Harley Davidson which has made Milton Park its regional headquarters for the UK region.
The completion of the Nebula buildings follow a refreshed Local Development Order (LDO) at Milton Park that will streamline planning decisions. The UK’s first data-driven, green-focused planning agreement, it ensures that planning decisions for occupiers can be made in just ten days, bringing forward new flexible laboratories, offices and amenities.
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