CIVIC STUDIO designed a masterplan and vision document for our clients on over 200 hectares of land at Cambridge South East in the United Kingdom for a mixed use sustainable urban extension with the potential to deliver up to 4,400 homes, 10ha of employment land, two local centres with educational uses and a 60 hectare Country Park.

We also produced a detailed townscape pattern book to inform the visioning and masterplan.

CIVIC STUDIO’s masterplanning of the Cambridge South East site follows a sensitive contextual approach with neighbourhoods designed around a sustainable 400m/5 minute walking distance to local centres and community facilities.

New mixed-use neighbourhoods accommodating a range of diverse housing typologies and tenures were envisioned and carefully integrated into existing communities like Cherry Hinton and Queen Edith’s Ward with improved access to the wider Cambridge network of open spaces that connect directly into the heart of the city centre.

The creation of significant new open spaces and public parks is a central feature of the masterplan, including a proposed new 60 hectare Country Park, the protection and extension of the Gog Magog Hills by preserving key views and extending areas of chalk grasslands and the preservation and enhancement of wildlife and all statutory and non-statutory ecological designations.