Ed lead the team for inception to the submission of an Outline Planning consent for this substantial retail development in the centre of the historic market town of Banbury in Oxfordshire. A cinema, hotel, food store and restaurants are planned in a scheme which brings the disused canal back in to the heart of town life.

At the head of both the design development and extensive consultation with the local planning authority, he gained support for a scheme of up to a 270,000 sq ft of retail area and up to 640 parking spaces on this sensitive site within the flood plain of the River Cherwell.

For Panter Hudspith Architects