Plans for a 1,650-home 1,650-homet south of Bicester have been announcedevelopmentnisouthof Defence (MoD).
The railway has also done well out of the growth of Bicester Village, a popular shopping centre in Oxfordshire.Small, incremental changes ensured the railway flourished.
The development on land to the north west of Bicester, Oxfordshire, will include 393 homes and a shop, eco-pub and community centre.
What's the problem with that?" For critics of Bicester's growth, the place where "garden town" rings most hollow is Gavray Meadows, or Bicester 13 as it is known on planners' maps.
I've long dreamed of Bicester Village.
Pulling into the Oxfordshire town of Bicester from the M40, there are few pretty Cotswolds cottages to be seen.
The appeal of Bicester Village as a destination, rather than somewhere you pop into angrily on the way home.
Land around the town has been divided into 13 development sectors: Bicester 1 is an "eco-town" where each new home comes with solar panels and a fruit tree; Bicester 2 is Britain's largest self-build development at Graven Hill, an attractively wooded former MoD site where 1,900 families can buy a plot and build their own grand design.
For Roberts, the credibility of Bicester's status as a garden town – and much more besides – rests on the fate of Gavray Meadows.
But Ian Inshaw from P3Eco, the company behind the development, said Bicester was a "focus for regeneration".
