The Moore

Description

The landscape design for Lots M1 and M2 will create the everyday spaces in which the future occupiers will live out their communal lives. The landscape strategy responds to the existing site context and the built form of the masterplan. The arrangement of buildings along the streets has been carefully developed to create a network of public and private open spaces and streets across the site. These spaces include a landscaped pedestrian street, tree-lined roads and mews streets and a new square called Tree Place. The homes have private front and back gardens, courtyards, and terraces. Together these create a choice and variety of outdoor experiences, visual richness and enhanced biodiversity. Key to the winning competition bid was the creation of two pedestrianised garden streets, called Green Street and Tree Street.

Planning History

The development at North West Cambridge provides the University with a unique opportunity to establish a new University-oriented urban quarter of Cambridge. The overall masterplan provides at least 3000 new homes, 100,000 sq m of academic and research space, accommodation for 2000 University students and a local centre with shops, a new primary school, public health care and community facilities. Outline Planning Permission for the masterplan was granted in February 2013. Lots M1 and M2 are part of the first phase of the development and comprise market housing. The Reserved Matters application for these Lots was submitted in August 2015 and was granted consent in December 2015.