Bodleian Libraries secure planning permission approval for the New Bodleian Library renovation

"Oxford University's Bodleian Libraries have announced that they had secured Planning Permission approval and Listed Building Consent from Oxford City Council for the GBP78 million restoration and renovation of the New Bodleian Library, to be reopened as the Weston Library in 2014/2015. The long-awaited project, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (WEA), has three aims: to create high quality storage for the Libraries' valuable special collections, which include the rare and unique manuscripts, books and maps that the Bodleian preserves for the international world of scholarship; to develop the Libraries' space for the support of advanced research; and to expand public access to its great treasures through new exhibition galleries and other facilities"