Begbroke Innovation District

Other key credits: Landscape architect: OKRA (Netherlands) Collaborating architect: RCKa Collaborating designer: Ooze (Netherlands) Place vision: Murray Twohig Planning consultant: Quod Community engagement: Kevin Murray Associates Strategic transport: KMC Sustainability, transport, civils, utilities: Buro Happold

Executive summary from entrant: 

North of Oxford, surrounding and including the Begbroke Science Park, we have planned a contemporary village that deliberately combines homes and employment space, local residents and university researchers. The concept is without global precedent as a new-build proposition in a ‘peri-urban’ location. Begbroke will be guided by the long-term stewardship of one of the world’s oldest universities and one of the UK’s biggest pension fund/asset managers. The plan incorporates 1,800 new homes, living streets, four parklands, a layout built around green arteries, which control the natural flow of water around the site, all arranged around a Grade II-listed Jacobean farmstead.