Cambridge Southern Fringe Background
Background
The Southern Fringe will see around 4,000 new homes and a range of new transport services and community facilities built on the southern edge of Cambridge around Trumpington village.
The Cambridge Local Plan explains how the Southern Fringe development will meet a range of needs for the City, including providing more housing close to the growing employment area of Addenbrooke's Hospital. The Southern Fringe is mainly located within Cambridge City Council's area, but some of the land also falls within South Cambridgeshire District Council's administrative boundaries. Therefore the two local authorities have been working together closely to drive forward a sustainable development.
Trumpington Meadows
Trumpington Meadows is the first of the two main residential areas in the Southern Fringe to obtain planning permission. It will be built on the former Monsanto land, around the Trumpington Park and Ride site.
Starting later this year, 1,200 homes (including 40% affordable housing) are due to be built alongside a primary school, community facilities, local shops, a 60-hectare country park, a children's play area, a multi-use games area, tennis courts, allotments, access roads, footpaths and cycleways.
Clay and Glebe Farm
The new urban extension at Clay Farm and Glebe Farm will become home to more than 5,800 people, in vibrant new neighbourhoods, with new schools, shopping, parks, recreational and community facilities alongside new and improved transport connections.
Clay Farm, situated on the land between Long Road and Shelford Road, will include 2,300 homes including 40% affordable housing. New secondary and primary schools, community, sport and recreation facilities, local shops, public open space, including allotments, roads, footpaths, cycleways and crossings of Hobson's Brook, will all add to this vibrant new community.
Glebe Farm is situated on land east of Hauxton Road, north of Addenbrooke's Access Road and south of Bishop's Road. 286 homes will be built, including 40% affordable housing, alongside informal open space, allotment provision and associated landscaping. This development will form an important new 'gateway' into the city of Cambridge, with a landmark building on the junction of Hauxton Road and the new Addenbrooke's Access Road.
The plans have been developed in response to regional and county planning policy, together with Cambridge City Council's Local Plan and the Southern Fringe Area Development Framework and extensive stakeholder and community consultation.
Bell School
Bell School site is located on land south of Greenlands, south west of the Bell School and west of Babraham Road. The Bell School site could provide up to 347 homes including 40% affordable housing and 100-bed student accommodation for the Bell Language School. The development will provide new public open space, including allotments, access roads, footpaths and cycleways.
Addenbrooke's
The Addenbrooke's 2020 Vision will start to be built as the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust expands in partnership with Countryside Properties PLC and Liberty Property Trust. The scheme will make Addenbrooke's the largest biomedical campus in Europe.
The expanded site - 140 acres rather than the current 70 acres - will have room for extensive new clinical facilities, including the proposed Children's Hospital and the relocated Papworth Hospital, as well as research labs where world-class scientists can work to push the boundaries of medical knowledge. The plans also include a conference centre, hotel, and accommodation for staff, with transport connections via the guided busway and a new link to the M11.
The plan, known as the 2020 Vision, is designed to develop the Addenbrooke's site as an international centre of excellence, bringing together clinical care, teaching and research to form the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It is likely to result in the creation of at least 8,000 jobs.
Transport and Community Facilities
The Busway will link the development to the City, the station, the new development of CB1, and on to the Science Park and beyond. In addition to the Busway being an improved transport link into Cambridge and surrounding areas there are also plans for enhanced walking and cycling paths in Cambridgeshire, which encourages the use of all forms of sustainable transport.
To support the new homes, Cambridgeshire County Council are preparing to build a new secondary school and two new primary schools, as well as extending the existing Fawcett primary school in Trumpington. In addition to new schools, the area will be serviced by a new children's centre and a joint, co-located library, community centre, youth facility and health centre.