Modern residential street with red brick houses, manicured green lawns, and mature trees under blue sky with white clouds.
CASE STUDY

Wantage Northeast

We worked with the trustees of two landowning families, both of whom were members of the local community, delivering a quality place that would leave an enduring, positive legacy.

Homes
1,500
Size
225 acres
Stage
Completed
Location
Oxfordshire

Our objective was to secure a deliverable planning permission for a new neighbourhood that complemented the existing settlement and providing enhanced community facilities and amenities unlocking the delivery of the strategic highway to alleviate a congestion problem in Wantage town centre.

Modern residential street with red brick houses, manicured green lawns, and mature trees under blue sky with white clouds.
Modern brick houses with orange-tiled roofs behind overgrown grassland with small pond. Blue sky with white clouds above green trees.
Modern brick housing estate with red-brown houses, solar panels, wooden fencing, and green grass verge in foreground.

Our approach focused on designing a masterplan to ensure the development would provide a sense of place strongly connected to the existing community of Wantage.

The planning permission consisted of 1,500 homes, a two-form entry primary school, local centre providing retail outlets, community hall, care home, community orchard, 100 acres of recreational and informal open space and a strategic link road.

The sale of the development was structured to retain an ongoing interest in the development through an agreement with the purchaser, St Modwen Developments who have delivered the scheme in accordance with the robust masterplan that we set in planning.