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Background to proposals:
In 1999, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, now known as Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with its site partners, the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council, published a strategy for the long term future development of the campus, proposing an extension of the site into adjacent land to create a biomedical campus of international importance. This strategy is known as the 2020 Vision. This Vision takes the concept of Addenbrooke's Hospital as a leading academic clinical centre and places it in the context of a campus that offers exceptional opportunities to develop synergies between patient care, research and education between the NHS, charitable, commercial and other public sector interests.
In 2003 two development partners were selected to help turn the 2020 Vision into reality. This coming together with leading development innovators from the U.S. (Liberty Property Trust) and the U.K. (Countryside Properties PLC) has created a truly international public/private partnership. The expectation is that this public/private partnership will lead to the creation of a world class biomedical research facility sitting alongside, and working with Addenbrooke's to create a healthcare "cluster" of national and international importance.
Further information on Addenbrooke's is available from www.addenbrookes.org.uk
Vision:
The development of the clinical and biomedical research campus aims to build on the success of the City's science-based businesses, the University and the attractiveness of the City for high quality R&D occupiers. The aim is to provide a maximum of 215,000 sq m of high quality flexible accommodation in secure managed surroundings. At least one third of the land area of the site will be given over to clinical research and treatment applications the majority of which will relate directly to the existing Addenbrooke's campus. Proposals are also at an advanced stage for the relocation of Papworth Hospital to the campus.
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus will provide an ideal location for developing innovation-driven business and will also allow the expansion of existing businesses operating from constrained sites elsewhere in the region. The development of the clinical and biomedical research campus and the consequent employment generation should be considered in the context of the proposed residential developments in the Southern Fringe which will provide homes for many of the staff at The Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
The new approved Addenbrooke's Access Road will link the existing hospital campus and proposed CBC development with the Hauxton Road and the M11. The proposed Cambridgeshire Guided Bus route will link into the new development and existing Addenbrooke's campus at the junction of Robinson Way and Keith Day Road.