The appointments include Buro Happold and Prior + Partners, among others
The new Cambridge Growth Company appointments will work with local leaders, including the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Together with the company and supporting government departments, a plan for infrastructure growth will be developed.
Cambridge Growth Company appointments will work towards a sustainable future
Greater Cambridge is aiming for growth with these plans as well as the local plan, being developed by the Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Service, Cambridge City Council, and the South Cambridgeshire District Council.
The Cambridge Growth Company will develop a plan using evidence for a more sustainable, inclusive, and innovative future. Insight will be gathered from local leaders, the economy, infrastructure, housing, employment, transport, and the natural environment.
Using this knowledge, both opportunities and challenges will be identified and plans made to target them. Examples include congestion times for transport, and a lack of available water.
The appointed firms will share their expertise
Buro Happold is an advisory firm specialising in engineering, strategic planning, economics, infrastructure, design, and environment and sustainability.
Buro will lead the evidence base, strategy and implementation plan.
Prior + Partners are a consultancy with experts in urban planning, masterplanning, and economics. They will help to develop the database to find Greater Cambridge’s unique needs.
Roger Savage, project director, said: “We look forward to working with local partners on addressing the challenges of the area. In developing the evidence base for the Growth Company we will consider ways which planning for growth can deliver a quality of life dividend for existing and future communities through investment in the environment and infrastructure.”
The Cambridge Growth Company was established in October 2024, with Peter Freeman as its chair. In the 2024 Autumn statement, the company was given £10m in funding.
The purpose of the company is to support Greater Cambridge in delivering its vision of long-term growth, including a long-term business model, infrastructure improvements, water supply, transport, education, health, and the surrounding natural environment.
In January of this year, Rachel Reeves confirmed plans for an Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor, which will see the region’s economic growth kickstarted and has the potential to add £78bn to the economy.
The project will see the two cities and the regions between them connected further, as well as focus industry on science and technology to create a “European Silicon Valley.”
A new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital has also been planned, Network Rail will help to deliver new homes in Cambridge, and the Cambridge waste water plant has recently been granted permission to relocate.
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