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ARBURY, CAMBRIDGE
This new urban extension of 900 homes occupies a strategic location within the northern fringe of the City of Cambridge, with easy access to the City Centre as well as to Newmarket, St Ives and Huntingdon via the A14.
The site is adjacent major employers including Cambridge Regional College and Cambridge Science Park and further employment opportunities will also be created within the scheme itself.
The scheme includes space for local facilities, shops and other services, a new Primary School, public open space, community buildings and leisure facilities, together with a partial reinstatement of an Iron Age enclosure.
The site will be developed for 70% market dwellings provided by a number of different house builders and also 30% affordable dwellings provided by Housing Associations, for occupation by key workers and other occupiers nominated by the local authorities.
Expansion of existing bus services and the proposed Cambridgeshire Guided Busway system, which will run along the King's Hedges Road frontage of the site, will ensure excellent public transport provision.
The approach to master planning in this instance has been to carefully integrate the new development with the existing urban communities of Arbury and King's Hedges on the south side of King's Hedges Road and to sustain the quality of life of the existing neighbourhood.
The development gained outline planning approval in June 2005 and infrastructure works commenced in September 2005.
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