Building Projects in Cambridge
There seems to be a lot of interesting development going on in Cambridge at the moment.
In transport, apart from the nonsense of the Guided Bus, there's the new pedestrian/cycle bridge over the A14, linking Milton to the Park and Ride. And the new cycle bridge over the railway on Coldham's Lane. There's also the planned new bridge over the Cam somewhere near Riverside. It also looks like the Council will get round to re-opening the Cutter Ferry bridge.
Lots of ongoing or proposed building projects too:
- The Grand Arcade - redevelopment of the central block containing Lion Yard carpark, Robert Sayle et al. Robert Sayle are moving out to a new building by the Grafton Centre so that the work can start. I think when they come back they may move in line with the rest of the brand and be John Lewis.
- The new cinema and bowling alley by Hills Road/Cherry Hinton Road junction - what I think is called the Cattle Market site. It'll be nice for me anyway - no need to trog into town to get to the cinema.
- The Botanic Garden is getting a big new section I believe. I think the University have bought the land on Brooklands Avenue which used to be a bowling club, and are turning it into an Education and Interpretation Centre and a dry garden (from what I half remember from Cam).
- The Fitzwilliam Museum - currently closed, and due to re-open in June(ish) I think. They've developed an interior courtyard to provide more space. Having been impressed by the British Museum's development of the old reading room, I'm intrigued to see what they will do here in a smaller scheme.
- Looking a bit further ahead, the University still owns a lot of land to the North and West of Cambridge. They have a kind of outline plan of what they want to do with it that is quite interesting.
- Even more speculative is the CamToo project. They want to create a dual bit of the Cam.
Posted by MFreestone at April 25, 2004 09:49 PM