RSHP

CB1 Cambridge Station

Project Partners
Andrew Morris
Mark Darbon

Project Partners
Andrew Morris
Mark Darbon

Job Sheets
English

Job Sheets
English

Date
2004-2009

Client
Ashwell Property Group plc

Location
Cambridge, UK

Overview

The historic university city of Cambridge attracts over 4.6 million visitors every year – second only to London in the UK. A significant proportion of these visitors arrive by train. However, the area around Cambridge railway station had seen no meaningful or integrated development proposals for nearly half a century and had fallen into a state of some decline.

RSHP was appointed by Ashwell Property Group to design a masterplan incorporating around 158,000 m² (1.7 million ft²) of mixed-use development on a ‘gateway’ site adjacent to the railway station in Cambridge.

The proposal includes a major new transport interchange, 58,000 m² (625,000 ft²) of residential space (including 1,250 student accommodation units for Anglia Ruskin University and affordable housing), 54,000 m² (580,000 ft²) of grade A office space, a 120 bed hotel and a high quality mix of leisure, retail and restaurant space.

This masterplan was intended to give an important regeneration boost to Cambridge while also helping to address the Government’s demands for more housing provision across the South East and East of England. It follows a ‘European’ approach to development, creating a development where people can work, live, shop and socialise in their neighbourhood, encouraging a sense of belonging and pride and improving the quality of life of local people.

Planning approval was given in October 2008 to a scheme which aimed to meet the Council’s expectations for a much-needed transport interchange, while balancing Ashwell’s own commercial expectations of the site. The site is now being built out broadly in accordance with the masterplan, by a number of developers.

Data

Team
Ed Butler, Katarzyna Ciechanowska, Mark Darbon, Mark Gorton, Angela Gates, Maria Hadjincolaou, Tracy Meller, Andrew Morris, Alastair Parvin, Carmen Pena, Sam Postel, Georgina Robledo, Richard Rogers, Peter Ryan, Thomas Weber, Andy Young

Project Partners
Andrew Morris
Mark Darbon

 

Job Sheets
English

Project Partners
Andrew Morris
Mark Darbon

 

Job Sheets
English

Location Map - CB1 Cambridge Station

Date
2004-2009

Location
Cambridge, UK

Site Area
9.9 ha

Landscape Architect
Robert Myers Associates

Planning Consultant
Savills Hepher Dixon

Transport Consultant
Mott MacDonald

Historic Buildings and Areas Specialist
QuBE Planning Ltd

Environmental Impact Consultant
DTZ

Public Consultation
Camargue

Archaeology Constultant
Cambridge Archaeology Unit

Ecological Consultant
RPS

Sustainability Consultant
Enviros

Data

Team
Ed Butler, Katarzyna Ciechanowska, Mark Darbon, Mark Gorton, Angela Gates, Maria Hadjincolaou, Tracy Meller, Andrew Morris, Alastair Parvin, Carmen Pena, Sam Postel, Georgina Robledo, Richard Rogers, Peter Ryan, Thomas Weber, Andy Young

Date
2004-2009

Location
Cambridge, UK

Site Area
9.9 ha


Landscape Architect
Robert Myers Associates

Planning Consultant
Savills Hepher Dixon

Transport Consultant
Mott MacDonald

Historic Buildings and Areas Specialist
QuBE Planning Ltd

Environmental Impact Consultant
DTZ

Public Consultation
Camargue

Archaeology Constultant
Cambridge Archaeology Unit

Ecological Consultant
RPS

Sustainability Consultant
Enviros

Project Partners
Andrew Morris
Mark Darbon

 

Job Sheets
English

Location Map - CB1 Cambridge Station

Project Partners
Andrew Morris
Mark Darbon

 

Job Sheets
English

Location Map - CB1 Cambridge Station

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