Project: Railway Lane Housing
We had the pleasure of working with Cantay Estates in supporting the discharge of planning conditions for 90 affordable homes, located within a technically challenging site in Littlemore, Oxford, which had previously been an oil depot.
Our approach was one of collaboration and partnership, developing hard and soft landscape plans as well as Landscape Management Plans with the Engineering, Architectural and Ecological teams.
In a city identified as one of the least affordable cities to live in the UK, this 100% affordable housing development will provide much needed new homes. Whilst also integrating a robust landscape design which provided open space for natural play, rain-water attenuation through a series of bioretention planters, swales and attenuation ponds and screening of the adjacent railway line.
We had the pleasure of working with Cantay Estates in supporting the discharge of planning conditions for 90 affordable homes, located within a technically challenging site in Littlemore, Oxford, which had previously been an oil depot.
Our approach was one of collaboration and partnership, developing hard and soft landscape plans as well as Landscape Management Plans with the Engineering, Architectural and Ecological teams.
In a city identified as one of the least affordable cities to live in the UK, this 100% affordable housing development will provide much needed new homes. Whilst also integrating a robust landscape design which provided open space for natural play, rain-water attenuation through a series of bioretention planters, swales and attenuation ponds and screening of the adjacent railway line.
Project Details
Client: Cantay Estates Ltd
Location: Littlemore, Oxford
Structural and Civil Engineers: Glanville Consulting
Architect: W J Macleod Architects
Size: 3.5 acres











