Greater Cambridge Local Plan Issues & Options 2020
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New searchCambridge South (Cambridge Biomedical Campus)
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Agriculture
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Greenfield
Mixed housing and employment with supporting facilities and open space
The site can provide employment floorspace to support the future growth of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The site can also provide new homes to meet local housing need and community facilities and open space to support a new community.
Circa 436,000 sqm of employment floorspace and circa 5,000 residential units.
All constraints capable of mitigation.
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Existing vehicular access from Addenbrookes Road. New vehicular access proposed from A1301 Cambridge Road, Babraham Road and Dame Mary Archer Way.
The site has varied topography. This will be addressed through the appropriate siting of development to respect areas of sensitivity.
Parts of the site are affected by fluvial flood risk. The site contains one small Local Nature Reserve, two Scheduled Ancient Monuments and one Grade II Listed monument. These areas will not be subject to development.
Additional utilities capacity will be required to accommodate development. The site has access to or potential access to key utilities.
The northeastern corner of the site is crossed by a Local High Pressure gas main route.
The site is not subject to any constraint that would require remediation prior to development, and has full support from landowners.
Employment floorspace takeup rates at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and low R&D floorspace vacancy rates in Cambridge indicate that there is high market demand for floorspace provision of this type. There is also an identified specific need for the provision of new homes for the employees of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
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2027 - 2029
2042 - 2044
15 years
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Compass House and adjacent land, Chivers Way, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9AD
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Commercial/industrial with ancillary uses. The northern part of the site comprises a detached two- and three-storey office building with a car parking area to the west. The southern part of the site comprises an empty former railway yard.
The southern part of the site comprises an empty former railway yard.
25/00451/FUL - Change of use from office (Class E) to mixed use office (Class E) and car driving test centre (Sui Generis) - Granted Permission (dated 02/04/2025) Pre-application advice: 24/50299/PRELV3, 24/50493/PRELV3
Previously developed land.
Proposing up to 22,000 square metres of office, research and development, and lab space.
Proposing ancillary uses such as aparthotels to accompany commercial uses.
Proposing up to 22,000 square metres of employment space.
There are several mature trees located along the north-eastern boundary along Station Road which are subject to Tree Preservation Orders (TPO).
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The Compass House part of the site is accessed from Chivers Way to the north, and the former railway yard is accessed from Station Road to the east.
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The site is not affected by flood risk.
The site has access to key utilities.
The site does not contain, or lie adjacent to, key infrastructure (e.g., pipelines, pylons, electricity sub-stations).
The site will be available for development in the next 0 to 5 years.
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Land between the M11 and Cambridge Road, south of Addenbrooke's Road, CB1 8RN
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Agricultural Land / Building
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Greenfield
Mixed-use development, including employer-linked housing and a consolidation/logistics hub
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Between 4000 and 4500 residential units.
Within the Cambridge Green Belt.
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The site has access to key utilities.
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