Overview
Delivery of an expanded science community at the existing Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton. Providing opportunities to live, work, learn and play in the most exceptional, stimulating and sustainable environment.
Project Highlights
Clients
Wellcome and Urban&Civic
Date
2021 - Present
Scale
150,000m² of workspace (research and translation uses), 1500 homes, a primary school and range of other supporting uses and infrastructure.
It is an immense privilege to be engaged in such an exciting project, which is so important for Cambridge, for the UK economy and for the furtherance of scientific research and development.
Helen Pearson-Flett, Senior Associate, David Lock Associates
The Project
The Wellcome Genome Campus is a world leading genetic research centre for genomics and biodata research, emanating from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and European Molecular Biology Laboratory. In December 2020, South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) granted Outline Planning Permission for a major expansion of the campus. This will transform an already ideas rich environment, into a vibrant mixed science and business park which supports scientific endeavour. The site will evolve to expand its research and development space, as well as meeting accommodation needs with homes for those working on site and provide rooms for visitors. Leisure and community needs be catered for with new sports facilities, a health centre, food and beverage outlets, meeting spaces, a nursery, a school and provision for local services.
The Process
We have been engaged in the expansion of the Wellcome Genome Campus since the project moved into the implementation phase, post outline planning permission. Central to the new design team, we have helped evolve the vision and master plan from outline application principles, into comprehensive proposals and ambitious targets, captured in a Strategic Design Guide, which has been approved by SCDC. Our work has been instrumental in shaping an approach to delivery that is entirely flexible to the many and varied needs that will emerge as the Campus grows, while safeguarding a strong and cohesive identity.
We have already coordinated a discharge of the all the pre-commencement requirements, including a number of site wide strategies; secured multiple consents for enabling, infrastructure and early works; secured consents for the first new buildings, now under construction; and are now fulfilling an important role in coordinating multiple phases of delivery through planning.