The University of Cambridge has won planning permission for the first phase of its £1bn residential-led North West Cambridge scheme.
Planners gave the nod this week to the first phase, which includes a 22,000 sq ft supermarket, shops and a doctors’ surgery around a central market square.
The university is due to select a development partner in the autumn.
Work will start later this year, with completion of the first phase scheduled for 2015. Outline permission for the 370-acre scheme, which will provide 3,000 homes, 2,000 student beds, a school and a hotel, was granted in February 2013.
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