Heyford Park Masterplan
The masterplan has been carefully designed by architects Proctor & Matthews and landscape architect Kim Wilkie. It creates a new ridged settlement that utilises the topography of the site with a woodland edge in keeping with the wider countryside features. The sites disused runways and taxiways will be reused as the transport network across the site and the key buildings will be repurposed for community uses.
The more sensitive locations around scheduled monuments have been transformed into common land where the current setting wont change. Public rights of way that were severed by the creation of the airfield will be reinstated allowing surrounding villages to utilise the services provided across the new town.
The scale of the new masterplan allows for infrastructure to be planned on a suitable size such as plans to reopen Ardley Station and to upgrade Heyford Station to provide sustainable transport connections between London, Birmingham, Oxford and Banbury.
This is a very exciting point in the journey where for the first time there is a strong vision for the whole site creating a dynamic and sustainable settlement with a forward-looking community that respects its heritage and reawakens the vibrancy that the site had during its time as an airbase.
