A UNIVERSITY building which had to be evacuated after large amounts of asbestos were discovered will now have the dangerous substance removed over the next two years.

Oxford University's zoology department has applied for planning permission to create a construction vehicle access into the Tinbergen Building on South Parks Road to be used until mid-2020.

Hundreds of staff, students and animals were forced to leave the building in February 2017 after high levels of asbestos were found.

Everyone in the zoology and experimental psychology departments has now been re-homed in temporary accommodation which could continue until 2022.

The university previously said it would either refurbish the building or demolish it, but either way the asbestos would have to be removed.

Some of that work have already begun but now the university has applied for the construction access to begin the operation in earnest.

See the plans at oxford.gov.uk using reference number 18/03010/FUL

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