
Great Western Park, Didcot
Great Western Park is a major mixed-use urban extension of around 3,300 new dwellings together with associated local shops and services, leisure, open space and community facilities and transport, drainage and utility infrastructure.
It has increased the urban area of Didcot by around 20% with a major district centre in the heart of the development, providing residents with shops, new schools, community facilities and significant outdoor sports facilities in Boundary Park. The design draws on the characteristics of Oxfordshire towns and villages to provide a high quality, characterful development.
The development is split into three distinct areas: the Northern Neighbourhood, District Neighbourhood and the Southern Neighbourhood.
Client(s)
Principal Contractor(s)
Taylor Wimpey & David Wilson Homes
No. of Units
3,300 units

Key Constraints
Key Works
S278 & S38 Works
A4130, Wantage Road and on-site infrastructure
Services diversion & re-routing
Significant groundworks, reprofiling & earthworks to install new infrastructure
Multiple housing parcels: various developers
New Schools including UTC
Community Facilities, Play areas and landscaped open space
Sports Pavilion & other sporting facilities
Key Constraints
Works to boundary of existing housing estate
Local Primary School on boundary of works site
Live highways works
Underlying strata: Gault Clay - commonly highly fissured & liable to collapse
Former agricultural land
Ecological constraints
Multiple works ongoing at any one time, co-ordination of Consortium PC’s
Services Provided
CDM Support & PD for Infrastructure
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