Urban & Civic buys site for 20-year project
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced the sale of a 293-hectare former army barracks site, bringing a planned 6,500-home development a step closer.
The Waterbeach Barracks site in Cambridgeshire, has been sold to master developer Urban & Civic, part of Wellcome Trust.
Urban & Civic, together with MOD body the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, has achieved planning consent for a major redevelopment of the site, which is already underway.
The development will be built in stages over 20 years and is expected to provide 6,500 new homes, five new schools and a town centre.
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David Brewer, chief operating officer at DIO said: “This is not just a disused MOD site, it is a place with a heart, and a rich military and archaeological history, and strong links with the existing community of Waterbeach.
“We are proud that this will be remembered and commemorated through the innovative and thoughtful development to come and that those links with the existing community will be reinvigorated.”
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