A residential development for 200 homes at the southern entrance to the town.
The site for this development is located at the southern entrance to Faringdon in Oxfordshire. As a greenfield site on the outskirts of town, it was considered particularly sensitive and as such was the subject of an Environmental Impact Assessment, which also considered the potential ‘cumulative’ effects of a number of other proposed developments around the edge of the town.
The proposed development evolved from and responded to the landscape and visual assessment. It was designed to present an ‘active frontage’ onto Coxwell Road, with a large central green space located at the front of the development, in order to present an attractive, high-quality entrance to the town. Strong belts of buffer planting were included along its southern, northern and western boundaries, which, in time, will form an attractive backdrop to the development. The scheme was also designed to incorporate a SuDS system that would form an integral part of the open space — the attenuation area in the south-western corner of the site has been configured to provide an informal area of open space for the greater part of the year, with the ability to store water in times of high rainfall.
The scheme received planning permission in January 2015.
