Policy S/C/CJ: Cambridge Junction and Cambridge Leisure, Hills Road

S/C/CJ: Cambridge Junction and Cambridge Leisure, Hills Road     

• Site area of 3.39 hectares. 
• Cambridge Junction and Cambridge Leisure will develop as a vibrant, reimagined, part of the city that includes new homes, workspaces, leisure, entertainment and culture. Cambridge Junction is a locally and regionally important venue and, alongside a significant new public space, will form the centre of this neighbourhood. Supported with a mix of complementary uses, this area will a place where people can live, work and play throughout the day and evening. 
• Capacity for approximately 100 homes, concert and performance spaces (Sui generis), commercial leisure (including food and drink and the reprovision of the bowling alley and cinema),commercial uses including Office (E(g)i), Research and

  This refers to development in its widest sense, including buildings, and streets, spaces and places. It also refers to both redevelopment, including refurbishment, as well as new development.

  facilities (E(g)ii), light industrial (E(g)(iii) and complimentary Hotel (C1) and Storage or Distribution (Class B8). 

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This refers to development in its widest sense, including buildings, and streets, spaces and places. It also refers to both redevelopment, including refurbishment, as well as new development.

proposals must demonstrate how they will meet the following requirements in order to create a vibrant mixed use neighbourhood: 

  a. A masterplan led approach to the comprehensive redevelopment of the site, ensuring that it aligns with adjacent development proposals within the Clifton Road Industrial Estate (Policy S/C/CLT) and positively responds to any possible future eastern entrance to Cambridge Station; 

  b. The re-provision and enhancement of Cambridge Junction as a live performance and community venue. Through engagement with local stakeholders and relevant bodies, redevelopment proposals should deliver a range of flexible spaces that can accommodate live shows, community workshops and a dedicated nightclub. If required, temporary venue provision should be provided during the construction phases of the redevelopment to minimise any short term disruption to this important local and regional venue; 

  c. Redevelopment of the existing commercial leisure units (including cinema, bowling alley and food and beverage outlets) must ensure that these uses are re-provided within the development proposals; 

  d. The provision of residential uses provided that noise mitigation is addressed at the masterplanning stages of development to ensure there is no adverse impact on residential amenity from surrounding uses. 

  e. The provision of a range of commercial uses, in particular for start up companies, grow on spaces, workshops and maker spaces; 

  f. The loss or reduction in Storage or Distribution (Class B8) and/or Hotel provision (Class C1) would need to be justified in accordance with the relevant

A plan for the future development of a local area, drawn up by the local planning authority in consultation with the community. In law this is described as the development plan documents adopted under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. A local plan can consist of either strategic or non-strategic policies, or a combination of the two.

policies; 

  g. A significant and flexible public space that is the focus of the new development which provides a range of functions, including opportunities for people to dwell, temporary events like pop up markets and spill out and performance space to support Cambridge Junction and adjacent commercial/retail uses; 

h. Opportunities to open up the site from Hills Road should be taken to increase the permeability of the site; 

  i. The provision of a dedicated cycle park which forms part of a travel hub that is well connected with any future phases of the Chisholm Trail and wider cycle infrastructure on Hills Road and Cherry Hinton Road; 

  j. The re-provision of a multi-storey car park; 

  k. A new energy centre to support decentralised energy generation for the site; 

  l. Given the changes in levels, the design of the site should seek to improve its visual relationship with Hills Road where possible; 

  m. A positive, context-led approach should be taken in relation to the massing, style, and materials of new buildings to limit any negative impacts on the setting of the Grade II Listed Railway Station, the New Town and Glisson Road

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, and other designated and non-designated heritage assets that are in the vicinity of the site; 

  n. Given the sites potential to be experienced in a number of strategic viewpoints and from landmark buildings along Hills Road, design mitigation in terms of appropriately tested building heights, the careful orientation of development and appropriate massing is required; 

  o. Adequate access and servicing arrangements for the range of uses should be incorporated into any proposal. Where possible and practical, access for servicing and deliveries should be managed on-street; 

  p. Archaeological investigation and mitigation will be required to identify the presence and significance of as yet unknown archaeological remains across the site.