Kilbride Group - Proposal for Shipton Quarry, Oxfordshire Working for Kilbride Properties, Rolton Group provided the engineering and energy input into the plans for a new Eco Town near Oxford. The team included experts from blue-chip advisors on architecture, traffic and infrastructure, hydrology, land contamination, landscaping, ecology and rail engineering. The scheme proposed the redevelopment of a disused quarry at Shipton on Cherwell into a town that would provide more than 5,000 new homes including affordable and key worker housing plus new schools and community facilities. Rolton’s energy strategy for the development was based on the concept of the zero carbon development. The strategy makes best use of the site’s characteristics, which include an adjacent river, a high water table,

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