Media Call: Demolition at RAF Upper Heyford

When:                  Thursday, 14 November

Time:                    11am  

Where:                Bicester North, Oxfordshire, Upper Heyford, Camp Road, OX25 5HD

What:                  Demolition of disused former military buildings at RAF Upper Heyford, ahead of the start of construction.

Photo opp:       Advanced stage of demolition along the first street to be redeveloped. Access to normally restricted areas of the site for further photo and filming opportunities.

Heyford Park is the redevelopment of the former RAF airbase Upper Heyford in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The site was one of Europe's largest US airbases with 15,000 American troops stationed there at its peak during the Cold War.

The US left in 1994, and various planning battles over the years resulted in no progress at all. The current developer, Dorchester Group, acquired the land in 2009 and has building permission for 700 new homes, which will be built alongside 300 former US military homes that have been rented out to local people since the US departed. The regeneration of the site is the perfect case study of former Ministry of Defence land being put to good use, providing new homes for the community.

For more details, contact Luisa Lagerwall:

Email: llagerwall@ttaproperty.co.uk

Telephone: 020 7861 2576

Mobile: 07976 357 206