MORE details have emerged about where the first environmentally friendly homes will be built at Bicester’s £1.5bn eco-town.

The Oxford Mail can reveal developer P3Eco has pre-sold a 45.9-acre site on the corner of Lords Lane and the B4100, opposite Bure Park.

About 300 homes will be built by housing Association A2 Dominion, which is part of the P3Eco consortium.

Thirty per cent will be affordable homes the rest will be sold on the open market.

P3Eco has commissioned consultants Arup to carry out an environmental impact assessment of the entire 850-acres site, on farmland north west of Bicester.

Chairman Ian Inshaw said: “Arup has been commissioned to start the process so we can identify areas that are going cause us some difficulty. We know already there is a 200-year-old badger sett there. Our aim is not to remove a single hedgerow unless it’s impracticable. We are going to dig up fields and put houses on them but we need to preserve the countryside as much as possible.”