探花直播city鈥檚 West Cambridge site will be transformed into a dynamic Innovation District, connecting world-class researchers with world-class businesses, creating thousands of jobs and providing a 鈥榮ense of place鈥 and amenities for residents.听

探花直播West Cambridge Innovation District will be a vibrant new destination quarter within the city, connecting industry with academic expertise and creating a welcoming, people-focused environment.

Professor Andy Neely, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations

探花直播scheme, approved听by Cambridge City Council听subject to a Section 106 agreement, signals a new approach to university-industry collaboration, with innovation 鈥榙esigned-in鈥 to encourage creativity to flourish. 探花直播restyled site will build on Cambridge鈥檚 innovation success and support the region's economic recovery post-pandemic.

A wide range of jobs at various skill levels will be created as part of the site鈥檚 development, with an ambition to grow the number of employees at West Cambridge from the current 4,000 to 15,000 by 2041. 探花直播scheme will also boost sustainable travel at the site and in the west of the city, with a significant investment in pedestrian and cycle improvements.

New academic and commercial spaces will provide 鈥榮ide-by-side鈥 collaborative working - including Growth Hubs and an Innovation Space to support the development of start-ups - and at the heart of the District will be a series of shared amenity hubs that offer flexible space for teaching and study, as well as business meetings, social and networking events, talks and art exhibitions. 探花直播first of these hubs, is set to open later this year, and will include a caf茅, restaurant and retail facilities that will welcome the local community and complement existing amenities such as the Sports Centre that already offers state-of-the-art leisure facilities for everyone living and working in the area.

Architecture and landscaping will help create a more open and welcoming environment for staff, students, and the wider community, putting the 鈥榮cience on show鈥 and encouraging social interaction. Pedestrianised plazas, central gardens, lakes and urban orchards will place healthy living and the natural world at the heart of the development, contributing to the plan鈥檚 positive impact on the local ecology and quality of place.听

探花直播 officers have worked closely with Council officers and with local residents to address concerns and to ensure the development will have a positive impact.

Full consideration of environmental impact is integral to the development and includes future plans for a solar farm to supply 探花直播 buildings on the site with low-carbon electricity. 探花直播Innovation District will also be a testbed for developing innovative approaches to help the 探花直播 achieve its ambition of becoming zero carbon by 2048.听

探花直播West Cambridge campus 鈥 where 探花直播Ray Dolby Centre will be the centrepiece of the new Cavendish Laboratory - is already home to world-leading research in technology and the physical sciences. 探花直播 探花直播 sits at the heart of the so-called 鈥楥ambridge Cluster鈥, in which more than 5,300 knowledge-intensive firms employ more than 67,000 people and generate 拢18 billion in turnover. Cambridge has the highest number of patent applications per 100,000 residents in the UK.

Professor Andy Neely, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, said: 鈥 探花直播West Cambridge Innovation District will be a vibrant new destination quarter within the city, connecting industry with academic expertise and creating a welcoming, people-focused environment, including leisure facilities, that will be enjoyed by the wider Cambridge community. 探花直播District will have a positive impact on biodiversity, and bring a wide range of new jobs at various skill levels, turning Cambridge brilliance into sustained economic growth.

鈥 探花直播development of West Cambridge will support the region's economic recovery post-pandemic and nurture the entrepreneurial strengths of the Cambridge Cluster. Through architecture and landscaping, the restyled campus will foster connectivity and the kind of 'serendipitous collisions', or chance meetings, that spark new ideas and change the world.鈥澨


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