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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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