Wykham Park Farm is a 128 acre site which is being developed to provide up to 1,000 dwellings. This will also comprise of a mixed use neighbourhood centre, a primary school, school playing fields and large Public Open Spaces.
O’Brien Contractors were engaged as Principal Contractor by L&Q, a charitable housing association who house more than 250,000 people in 105,000 quality homes to deliver the Section 278 infrastructure works to a new housing development in Banbury.
The works being constructed on former farmland and existing highway, were to provide access to a proposed mixed-use scheme via a new roundabout on the re-aligned A361 Bloxham Road. The new road system also diverted traffic away from a very busy smaller road which had previously had to cope with high levels of traffic from housing developments already in the area.
Our contracted operations on the project included:
- Bulk earthworks, topsoil strip, drainage works, road & footpath construction, footpath construction, kerb laying, services installation and protection, timber fencing, street lighting and signage.
- Installation of an attenuation pond, highway ditch realignment and permanent landscape mounds utilising surplus earthworks materials generated from the works.
- Construction of a new roundabout junction on Bloxham Road, including realignment of the existing highway, to provide access into the future development.
- Provision of public utilities to serve the new development including temporary works and off- site reinforcement.
- Installation of a section of FWS rising main by Thames Water Contractor through the S278 Works to facilitate future connection to the ultimate point of connection as well as connection to the future on-site works.
The project also required detailed traffic management planning and coordination with Oxfordshire County Council to ensure that the minimum disruption was caused to commuters whilst the works were being undertaken.
