The University supports the response from CBC Limited and landowners for the CBC expansion proposals.

We support:
- the proposed policy direction for development of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus to meet local, regional or national health care needs and for biomedical and biotechnology research and development activities, related higher education and sui generis medical research institutes, associated support activities to meet the needs of employees and visitors, and residential uses where it would provide affordable and key worker homes for campus employees.
- Recognition that CBC is of national and international importance.
- Recognition of the CBC Vision 2050.


We support the policy position that the first priority should be to reassess the existing campus land.

The Preferred Option for future expansion does not support CBC Ltd and the landowners’ projections on future demand for life sciences space in Greater Cambridge, however. We are concerned that the Council’s preferred jobs forecast is based on an assumption that jobs growth for life sciences (and other key sectors) in the plan period to 2041 will be lower than that actually achieved between 2001-2017. A common set of growth projections for the CBC needs to be agreed in order to inform the next stages of local plan preparation.