News

Our Herdsman Richard has harvested a bumper crop of vegetables from a giant edible chaos garden he created on our Estate.

Scientists are studying the sounds of nature in our estate as part of a nationwide study into the potential benefits of green spaces for health and wellbeing.

Homebuyers can save thousands under the new Stamp Duty threshold.

A newly-published report, by property consultants Knight Frank, has described our commitment to developing high quality properties as part of our Landowner Legacy as a ‘kite mark for stewardship’.

We are working with VeloCity, which features engineers, architects and planners, to re-imagine a future based around people, places, public transport and new technology.

Work is now re-starting at both Hanborough Gate and Park View developments, with more new sites set to get under way in the near future.

Our lake dredge project, set to start this month, has been postponed.

We donated a mix of young oak, cherry and beech saplings grown on our Estate to the Combe Parish Tree Stewards scheme.

Our radical new way to provide more than 200 truly affordable homes in Woodstock is at risk after Cherwell District Council opted to remove it from their Local Plan.

A team of ecologists have begun work to help safeguard vital wildlife habitats ahead of our £9m lake dredge project, which is due to get under way in April.

Our radical approach to affordable housing has been featured in a major new government-backed report.

A massive civil engineering project due to begin in April will see more than 300,000 cubic metres of silt removed from the Queen Pool lake.

Witney MP Robert Courts officially opened our landmark Park View development on Thursday, 23rd January.

The site, known as PR10, has not been included even though more homes will now be added to Green Belt sites which have been allocated, despite this being against national policy. PR10 is the only site among the Cherwell allocations that is not located in the Green Belt.

Volunteers from the Long Hanborough Community Tree Project joined local youngsters in a special tree-planting scheme recently.

Abseiling ecologists are using miniature borescope cameras to monitor rare bat colonies roosting inside our Grand Bridge.

We have unveiled a revolutionary new approach to managing our 12,000 acres of land over the coming decades.

Jake Smith, 16, from Henley-on-Thames is among the latest young people to take advantage of our commitment to train over 100 apprentices within the next 10 years.

We're welcoming a herd of British White Cattle onto the Blenheim Estate, to protect our ancient oak woodland.

The Blenheim Estate Office has been recognised in the Oxford Preservation Trust Awards 2019.

In partnership with West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC), we recently hosted a ground-breaking seminar on our radical new approach to the provision of truly affordable housing.

Radley College has appointed Pye Homes to build 240 new properties on its land.

We're joining forces with an award-winning employment charity and social enterprise to provide classes and activities for people facing multiple challenges, helping them move forward with their lives.

Our Forestry Team are propagating 3,000 acorns from our unique collection of 900-year-old oak trees.

We recently accommodated a special event where the University College of Estate Management (UCEM) published the findings of The Value of Community, a joint report which reveals a direct link between housing type and social benefits – so-called ‘social capital’.

At Blenheim Estate Homes we have just unveiled a ground-breaking set of commitments which set new standards in landowner legacy development.

We have proudly unveiled our new landmark property development site, Park View, during a VIP preview.

We've created a series of new way marked permissive paths to provide access to our wider estate.

Eighty trees from woodland on the Blenheim Estate are being used to create an authentic reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon royal house in Oxfordshire.

We've created a series of new way-marked permissive paths to provide access to our wider estate.

We're boosting the ecology of Hanborough Gate, Long Hanborough.

Visitors to the newly-opened Hanborough Gate show home will be able to enjoy a taste of the countryside on Monday, 27th May.

Including a £10,000 interior design offer for new buyers towards interiors, supplied by Vogue Showhomes.

New tenancy fees will be waived from March onwards, ahead of the new Tenant Fees Act which becomes law on 1st June.

A former stone quarry, originally used to build Blenheim Palace, is set to be developed into 10 new homes.

Community First Oxfordshire appointed to consult local people about the current and future needs of the town.

Alongside Woodstock Town Council, we're appointing a facilitator to help us produce an infrastructure and community delivery plan for Woodstock.

We are very proud to announce we have acquired our long-standing development partner Pye Homes

In partnership with Pye Homes, we're working on a new housing development east of Woodstock.

The first new residents have moved in to our ground-breaking affordable housing scheme in Long Hanborough