Cambridge is one of the UK’s most successful and fastest growing cities. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus is an internationally significant health and life sciences cluster and is expected to accommodate 27,000 jobs by 2031.
The Cambridge Local Plan 2018 identifies the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and the Cambridge Southern Fringe as an area of major change in Cambridge.
Over the next four years, 3750 new jobs are expected to be created. It is envisaged that by 2031, new housing developments across the Cambridge Southern Fringe - comprising an estimated 4000 new homes - will have been built.
The Department for Transport (DfT) published a Strategic Outline Business Case in November 2017 for a new railway station in the south of Cambridge, serving the internationally significant Cambridge Biomedical Campus and Southern Fringe development areas of Cambridge.
Benefits
The new station would connect the Cambridge Biomedical Campus with potential destinations such as central London, London Stansted Airport, Ely, Birmingham and Europe.
The station would also provide access to a growing area of high-quality employment and also help relieve congestion in the local area by supporting the development of environmentally sustainable transport in Cambridge. In the future, East West Rail services from Bedford to Cambridge could serve the new station.
Consultation Round Two – October to November 2020
The next round of public consultation is now open for six weeks to allow the public to comment on the next stage of development for the new station.
This consultation round focuses on station facilities and station access arrangements, to make sure that the proposals that have been developed cater for future station users. It is also an opportunity to see how the current proposals have addressed the feedback received from the first round of consultation earlier this year.
Consultation on these proposals will last for six weeks, closing on Sunday 29 November. During this time, the public can view proposals, hold virtual discussions with Network Rail representatives and submit comments which will be considered as part of the continuing design process.
Visit the Cambridge South Consultation website>>>
Image: Indicative visualisation of Cambridge South station from the east