Longcross (company)

[1] The company undertook a number of projects for the University of Oxford, including at the Clarendon Laboratory, Denys Wilkinson Building, Mathematical Institute, Merton College, Queen Elizabeth House, Osler House, and a number of other departments.

[6] From 2012, the Castle Mill site (400m × 25m) between the Cripley Meadow Allotments to the west and the railway tracks by the Castle Mill Stream to the east, north of Oxford railway station on Roger Dudman Way, was developed as extensive student accommodation for the Oxford University Estates Directorate (OUED) by Longcross.

[7] The development was controversial due to its visibility from Port Meadow, an historic area of undeveloped land to the north.

[15] Longcross received the highest CCS score to date 48 out of 50, on the second audit at Castle Mill.

"[17] It is described as "A deeply unimaginative and impoverished design which would lower the spirits whatever its setting, but on the edge of one of central England’s most important and ancient landscapes, it is an outrage."

Longcross signs and gate at the north end of the Castle Mill construction site in Oxford , England.
Panoramic view of Oxford University 's new Castle Mill graduate housing built 2012–3 by Longcross on what was Cripley Meadow , looking south from Port Meadow , Oxford .
St Barnabas Church campanile obscured by new Oxford University Castle Mill graduate accommodation buildings constructed by Longcross, viewed from the southern end of Port Meadow.