The redevelopment of Whitehill & Bordon and RAF Upper Heyford provides a useful comparison because both involve large former Ministry of Defence sites acquired by the Dorchester Group. Despite this shared ownership, the planning approaches adopted at each site differ in important respects. Whitehill & Bordon demonstrates a planning strategy in which contamination was treated…

The question was raised on one of the Heyford Park forums about who benefits financially from a large scale development, what the impact would be of stopping to address environmental concerns, and what options there would be for corruption under these circumstances. Obviously, I don’t want to address this in specific terms, but I thought…