Land Parcels For Central Energy Centre Somerton Road Upper Heyford OX25 5LB
Outline planning application with All Matters Reserved: The Upper Heyford Heat Network is to provide low-carbon heat supply to 156 buildings in Upper Heyford Village. The buildings comprise 153 Domestic buildings and 3 non-domestic buildings comprising The Barley Mow (public house), Upper Heyford Reading Rooms and Upper Heyford Village Hall. The three main construction components to the work: 1 - Drilling of 134 no. boreholes to accommodate the closed loop ground source pipework which will provide the long-term low-grade heat for the heat network; 2 - A newly constructed, single storey energy centre building housing internal Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP) units, thermal storage and other heat generation and supply infrastructure - the building will have external Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) units and associated pipework; 3 - Approximately 6,614m of trench work to connect pipework from the boreholes to the energy centre and the primary heat distribution system to all the participating buildings via dedicated, in property heat interface units (HIU)