Scott Brownrigg-designed scheme approved after being rejected last year
Cambridge is set to get another science park following the approval of a 15 acre Scott Brownrigg-designed scheme on appeal.
The Cambridge International Technology Park is being developed by BioMed Realty, a San Diego-based developer specialising in the life science and technology industries which operates nearly 16 million sq ft of sites across the US and the UK.
Located on Fulbourn Road, it will provide 600,000sq ft of laboratory and office space for life sciences, biotechnology and traditional office occupiers.
Scott Brownrigg is behind a similar scheme at Oxford worth £150m with the Cambridge job thought to be worth around £200m.
Bidders on the Oxford job include Mace, Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert McAlpine with these firms also likely to run the rule over the Cambridge job when it comes up for grabs early next year.
It is the latest in a string of new science parks in Cambridge, following last year’s go ahead for Sheppard Robson’s 85,000 sq ft St John’s Innovation Park and a 200,000sq ft scheme, also designed by Scott Brownrigg, which was approved in 2018.
The practice also designed a £90m headquarters campus in the city for technology firm Arm which was completed last year.
The Fulbourn Road scheme was submitted for planning in 2021 but rejected by Cambridge council in November of that year before being given the all clear at an appeal this week.
It has been designed to promote outdoor working, with a series of landscaped terraces, gardens and covered areas intended to encourage workers to bring their work outside.
The project team includes project manager Turner & Townsend, MEP engineer Atelier Ten, structural engineer Ramboll and planning consultant Bidwells.
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