Dorchester Living has submitted a scoping request to Cherwell District Council in advance of preparing a planning application for a 6,000-home masterplan at Heyford Park in Oxfordshire.
Dorchester Living has submitted the request after two years of consultation and development of the proposals.
Heyford Park is a development in Bicester, located on the site of the former RAF Upper Heyford airfield.
Since Dorchester Living acquired the site in 2009, it has delivered over 1,200 mixed-tenure homes, a village centre consisting of a hotel and bar, a Sainsbury’s, a dentist, a barber, a pharmacy, and bike shop, as well as a school.
The developer plans to submit a further masterplan proposal that would provide 6,000 additional homes with a mix of tenures, including affordable housing.
The masterplan will include 540,000 sq ft of commercial space, focused on clean tech industries, and a railway station, with direct connections to London and Birmingham.
Paul Silver, chief executive of Dorchester Living, said: “In recent weeks the new government has made clear that it is committed to enabling a major housebuilding and infrastructure programme to deliver the homes and facilities that the country needs.
“A focus on brownfield-first development and the provision of high-quality, mixed-tenure homes sits at the heart of this, and we at Dorchester Living fully support its ambition and we are ready to play our role in helping to achieve it.”
Silver added that the masterplan would help remedy Oxfordshire’s housing crisis. He said: “Heyford Park is perfectly placed to accommodate more growth – being a disused airfield – and our masterplan would not only deliver thousands of new mixed-tenure homes, but also jobs, commercial space and major new sustainable transport infrastructure.”
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