Update 4 December 2018: You can now read the reports from the event online.

The residents of Birdwood Area are invited to the Land South of Coldhams Lane Community Planning Weekend to help shape a vision for the future of this important “Area of Major Change”, including the lakes and urban country park and its relationship with the adjacent community and wider city.  Download the programme (pdf).
 
Public Exhibition & Workshops
When: Friday 23 November 2018, 1.45pm - 6.30pm & Sunday 25 November 2018, 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Holiday Inn Express, Coldhams Business Park, 15-17 Norman Way, Cambridge CB1 3LH

Lakes Open Day
When:  Sunday 25 November 2018, 10.30am - 3.30pm
Where: Pedestrian entrance via the gate off Burnside, Cambridge CB1 3PA. No parking available.

Report Back Presentation
When: Tuesday 27 November 2018, 6.45pm - 8.30pm
Venue:  Holiday Inn Express, Coldhams Business Park, 15-17 Norman Way, Cambridge CB1 3LH

The Land South of Coldhams Lane, including the lakes south of the railway and land parcels to the north of the railway, is identified as an “Area of Major Change” in the new Local Plan. As well as built development, ideas include the ecological enhancement of parts of the “Area of Major Change”, outdoor recreational uses and a new urban country park. Anderson Group, who own part of the “Area of Major Change”, are holding a community planning process through the autumn and has appointed architects and masterplanners JTP and other consultants to work with the local community to create a new Vision for the “Area”.

The Community Planning Weekend will be an opportunity to share local knowledge and contribute to shaping the plans through workshops, site tours and hands-on planning groups. There will also be an exhibition explaining the background to the proposals.  Participation is on a drop-in basis – there is no need to pre-register – and you can stay for a short while, a few hours or for the whole event as you choose. Team members will be on hand to answer questions.

As part of the Community Planning Weekend, the lakes will be open to the public from 10.30am until 3.30pm on Sunday 25 November. Please sign in on arrival and visit the exhibition where team members from JTP will be on hand to talk about your ideas for the future of the lakes and the “Area of Major Change”. There is no car parking available at the lakes.

Following the public workshop days, the JTP-led team will analyse and summarise the outcomes and draw up a vision for the Land South of Coldhams Lane, including an illustrative masterplan and other matters required by Local Plan Policy 16. This will be presented back to the local community on Tuesday 27 November at the Holiday Inn Express. Doors open at 6.45pm and the presentation commences at 7.00pm.

Following the Community Planning Weekend, the Anderson Group team will move forward to prepare a planning application for the land parcels, which it is anticipated will be submitted to Cambridge City Council in Summer 2019.

For more information please visit landsouthofcoldhamslane.co.uk, call 0800 0126 730 or contact feedback@landsouthofcoldhamslane.co.uk.

Our local lakes (entrance at the end of Budleigh Close) will be open to the public one Sunday a month. The City Council is looking for volunteer wardens to help on these days. If you think you would like to spend some time in the fresh air beside these lovely lakes and feel that you are being useful at the same time contact Caterina.Dunning@cambridge.gov.uk