RESIDENTS will be able to snoop around the new builds at the Old Paper Mill, when a show home swings opens its doors for two days only.

On November 2 and 3, residents will be able to visit the new development – ahead of the 190 homes being sold.

The houses have been built by developer CALA, where the 18th century mill was – that once supplied paper to Oxford University Press.

The site was used about four centuries ago, but paper production officially finished in 1997.

The buildings were demolished in 2004, and plans for the major North Oxford development were approved last September.

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In the plans, designers said they would take inspiration from the history of the paper mill and Wolvercote’s character.

The Mill Road development boasts 95 homes with a mix of three and four bedrooms.

The developers say the entire development encourages sustainability through the retention of natural waterways at the former mill, and electric car charging points and bike storage at every home.

Each house is a similar lay out, with a kitchen and dining area and bi-fold doors into the garden, a utility room, cupboard storage and a garage.

The upstairs has a balcony with fitted wall storage in each room and a walk-in wardrobe.

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They come with the price tag of £975,000 – but as part of the developer's promise - half of the new builds have to be ‘affordable’.

Of the 190 in the new site, 74 will be flats and the remaining 116 are houses.

A doctors surgery and a ‘Mill Square’ community hub are also being built with CALA homes pledging to spend about £2m in boosting the infrastructure around the site.

That unit will be used to add in new bus stops linking new routes across the city.

Last year, Paul Buckley, a Liberal Democrat Wolvercote and Summertown county councillor, said the project design ‘embodies an agreeable compromise between packing in as many new homes as possible to meet the extreme demand and creating an attractive place in which to live.’

The marketing director at CALA Homes said: “We are delighted to be launching the showhome at our new Wolvercote Mill development.” It will be open to the public from 11am until 5pm.