The team behind the redevelopment of Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield is celebrating after being awarded the Landscape Institute Award for Excellence in Masterplanning and Urban Design. The annual award ceremony, which was held online on 26 November this year, celebrates the value of landscape in connecting people, place and nature. The accolade rewards landscape professionals who are taking innovative and …

Work to transform Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield into a 6,500-home community has started. After the completion of archaeological digs and remediation work for the first phase of the development, 30 heavy earth-moving machines – including diggers, bulldozers and dump trucks – have moved on to the site. With construction access installed, earthworks to create the future landscape has begun, which …

Work is underway to put in place the new access from the A10, which will act as both the main construction access, and in time a key gateway entrance for first residents. As part of the works being taken forward by contractors J Breheny, and to support the new turning off the Cambridge Research Park roundabout, there are restrictions in …

The first work to be undertaken as part of the Waterbeach Barracks development will be planting more trees and getting the existing woodland – planted by the military – into sustainable management. The work is part of Urban&Civic’s commitment to delivering 45% green space within the new community, and play its part in Doubling Nature in Cambridgeshire by 2030. The …

Loan will deliver key infrastructure to enable thousands of new homes First £15 million of contracts underway with local contractors Government housing agency Homes England has agreed a £61 million investment with developer Urban&Civic plc which will begin the delivery of a 6,500 home community at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire. The infrastructure loan from the agency’s Home Building Fund will accelerate …

As part of this year’s Remembrance Sunday commemorative events, Waterbeach Military Heritage Museum organised a re-dedication to the memory of Sgt Jon Webster (34), a terminally ill soldier in 39 Regiment of the Royal Engineers who devoted the last years of his life to raising money to help sick babies at Addenbrooke’s neonatal intensive care unit. The service was attended …

The redevelopment of Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield reached another milestone today (10 June) with the approval for the Design Code which ensures the quality of the vision will be delivered throughout the first phase of development, and provides the template for review and update across later phases of development. The Code covers the first 1600 homes and the first primary …