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title: Bicester Motion Submits First Phase of £1 Billion, 10-Year Mobility Estate Masterplan
description: Cherwell District Council will now consider three outline applications covering commercial, employment and residential space at the 444 acre Oxfordshire site...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-08-17T09:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-08-17T09:48:49.272Z
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Bicester Motion has submitted the first phase of planning applications for a £1 billion, ten year masterplan to expand its 444 acre site in Oxfordshire, positioning the former RAF station as one of the largest active development projects in the so called Motorsport Valley.

The estate sits within the Oxford to Cambridge growth corridor and has built its reputation as a campus for automotive, motorsport and mobility technology businesses. Cherwell District Council will now consider three separate outline applications covering the first stage of that expansion.

The largest, known as The Rushes, would deliver 475,275 square feet of commercial, demonstration, hospitality and customer facing space, a significant scaling up from the 240,000 square feet previously consented for the same site. The second application covers phase two of Command Works, adding 167,000 square feet of flexible employment space between the new UK headquarters of Mercedes-Benz owned battery specialist YASA at The Ranges and the existing Bicester Heritage site. The third, Motion Living, would bring around two hundred low rise, low density apartments to the estate, including a proportion of affordable housing, across 289,881 square feet.

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