Oxford’s housing changes street by street. Jericho and east Oxford around Cowley Road are tight Victorian terraces. North Oxford has large Victorian villas in a conservation area, and Headington and Marston are largely 1930s semis. Blackbird Leys and Barton are post-war estates with simpler roofs. Outside the city, Great Western Park at Didcot and Kingsmere at Bicester are big new-build areas with plain, unshaded roofs and many electric cars. Witney, Abingdon and Wantage mix older market-town centres with newer estates on their edges.
Planning goes through Oxford City Council or the district: Cherwell, West Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse or South Oxfordshire. Parts of the county are in the Cotswolds, Chilterns and North Wessex Downs National Landscapes. The network operator is SSEN, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks. Banbury marks the northern edge of the area we cover, and villages north of the town are borderline, so call first. Oxfordshire is more than 90 minutes from Ferndown, so the first survey is usually a video call, then a site visit. Installs are scheduled in groups.