According to the BBC, "Work can begin once the local planning authority approves the full details."
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That’s normal. They usually get the last word on some material specifications and detailed methodology, but the principle of the build is not their decision to make, so the contractor will be able to start his site works.According to the BBC, "Work can begin once the local planning authority approves the full details."
Cambridge South station plans backed by government
The £183m project will improve connectivity to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Ah, ok. That makes much more sense now!
I trust the station really will have a decently populated catchment area 
Isn’t it a destination station for the hospital and commuters rather than one for housing?Nice pictures. Although some of them do rather make it look like they're building a new station in the middle of fields
It will be the closest station for quite a bit of housing too, but yes the primary purpose is to serve the hospitals (there at least 4 hospitals there, including addenbrookes, cambridge children, rosie maternity and Papworth) and biomedical campus
Yes. There are already more than 20k jobs on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and it is still expanding rapidly. There will be a big uptick when Astra Zeneca are able to move into their new building, which should have been completed in 2019.
Eventually there will be 5 hospitals on the Biomedical Campus, 3 of which are regional not local hospitals.
Not much actually, except parts of Trumpington and Queen Edith's. The station will have no car park and very limited drop off/pick up facilities for motor vehicles. But there will be a big bicycle park: there is good access for cyclists from Trumpington via the cycleways adjacent to the busway. As a result the new station is of little use to residents of the parts of southern Cambridge that are not within walking or cycling distance.
On the down (west) side of the line is Hobson's Park, which won't get built on, apart from the station itself. There will be no road access to the station on the west side because it would have taken too much land from the park.
I review planning applications for a local organisation. It's quite normal for anything bigger than just a few houses to apply for and get Outline Consent which confirms the approval of a project in principle. What's left after that are called Reserved Matters. These will be the details left for the Local Authority to decide upon.
1766 to be precise. I'm old enough to have been a patient in "Old Addenbrookes" in Trumpington Street, and I remember "New Hospital" still being displayed as a bus destination in the 1970s, see here for an example:
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I have also been a patient at the old Papworth Hospital, including doing the transfer from Addenbrookes. It was also very difficult for outpatient appointments and visitors because of the poor car parking and bus service.
1766 to be precise. I'm old enough to have been a patient in "Old Addenbrookes" in Trumpington Street, and I remember "New Hospital" still being displayed as a bus destination in the 1970s, see here for an example:
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Leaving the railway station bound for the "New Hospital" via Cherry Hinton Road. The Station Hotel in the background was pulled down many moons ago. From my collection
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Doubt it. One side is the Addenbrooks site, which is all offices/labs. The other side is a meadow and then Trumpington which is approaching "done" in terms of the area I think they're planning to build on. (I know there are some not finished yet.)
And 5 hospitals.
Hobson's Park, which is being extended southwards, as part of the Cambridge South project, in exchange for the land in the existing park that has already been taken for the new station. Hobson's Park won't be built on.
New house building is still going up on Trumpington Meadows, which is near the M11, and Eddeva Park, which is near the Babraham Road. These will be within range of Cambridge South for cyclists, but rather a long way to walk.
I fell roller-skating and my broken arm was treated at the New Addenbrookes in winter 1962/3...so the A&E Dept was open them, but my memory is that there was still a lot of building work going on. The Cambridge South area was used for my school's cross country run course: wet claggy land with a lot of drainage ditches.
Coincidentally I have been researching HM the Queen's visit to open New Addenbrookes, which was on 28 May 1962 (unfortunately arrival was by helicopter not train). From the description in the Cambridge News (not the most reliable of sources) HM the Queen visited neurology and orthopaedic wards, the x-ray department and the physiotherapy department. I think this means that the only bits open were those at or near to outpatients at the Hills Road end of the site. In particular the big ward tower had not been started in 1962. But it did look like the place to be if you had a broken arm.
Many services pass through Addenbrookes bus station with one or two terminating there. The Guided busway doesn't use the bus station though.
Not unusual. Edinburgh Royal infirmary has 5 routes which terminate outside the front door (not outside on the street) .4 more call in.
The Addenbrookes bus station has 4 stands and is adjacent to the big Hills Road/Fendon Road roundabout, on the eastern edge of the Biomedical Campus. Some routes require a full circuit of said roundabout in order to call at the bus station. As with nearly all busy Cambridge road junctions, it is festooned with traffic lights.
The Addenbrookes bus station is outside the Biomedical Campus boundary so the smoking ban does not apply there. Other places adjacent to the boundary have the same issue.
Are they ever going to fix that? from using the U before and after the switch to the busway, it became both faster and more reliable with the switch, so sad to see it is no longer uses it. Though I'm sure homerton & the department of education appreciate it going back to Hills Road
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Bereaved family relieved over Cambridge busway closure
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- 23 December 2021
Image source, Moir Family
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Steve Moir died in a head-on crash with a bus when he clipped the kerb separating him from the busway
The brother of a cyclist who died on a guided busway in 2018 said it was a relief to the family that the section will temporarily close.
Cyclist Steve Moir died in a head-on crash with a bus between Cambridge railway station and Long Road.
A second person, pedestrian Kathleen Pitts, 52, died on the same stretch when she was hit by a bus in October.
Mr Moir's brother, Rob, said the closure "will hopefully prevent another death occurring".
Cambridgeshire County Council said the decision was made after "communications with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)".
The closure, on the inbound only track between the railway station and Addenbrooke's Hospital, is expected to begin on 17 January.
Measures such as painting new lines, installing signs and a temporary barrier to stop people from walking and cycling on the track will be installed.
The council said the closure will happen while it waits for any possible recommendations from an independent safety review.
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The council said there would be a review of the section of busway Kathleen Pitts died on
Speaking to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, Rob Moir said: "It's a relief to us that finally, after over three since Steve's death, action is now being taken.
"The family has to relive Steve's death every time an incident happens down there, we feel it's well overdue."
He said the announcement from the county council was "a bit of a surprise" after it had already made changes to the speed limit on that section.
Buses will have have to divert onto the busy Hills Road, once the closure comes into place, which Mr Moir said would be "slightly inconvenient for the bus users".
"But hopefully in time the safety measures will be installed and the buses go back down there again and everybody can use that section side-by-side and safely," he added.
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The county council said the closure will begin in mid-January
Labour MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner, said he welcomed the closure but questioned why "we have waited a very long time" for recommendations from the HSE and the independent safety review.
But he said safety on the busway was "not a simple question to resolve, we really do need a safer solution to that section of track".
Cambridgeshire County Council said it would not comment further on the closure announcement.
The HSE said its investigation was ongoing and it continued to be in "constructive dialogue" with the council regarding safety on the busway.
I was aware that it was closed over the deaths - so I was wondering if they were ever going to bring it back into use.It was closed following two deaths on that section:
Bereaved family relieved over Cambridge busway closure
The section where a cyclist died in 2018 and a pedestrian died this year will close temporarily.
I've only recently come to Cambridge for the first time in a long time, and I was, quite frankly, astounded at the busway. Pedestrians and cyclists in such close proximity with a large kerb sticking up but otherwise no separation. No fence or even safety space. It just looked so unsafe I was amazed it ever got built like that in the first place.
I suspect it will stay closed for quite some time. I can't see how they can justify re-opening without placing some form of better protection/separation there, but it's they built the path so close there's little room for a fence, plus the money to do it needs to be found.
But if they do build a fence there, they will then need to risk assess that vs the rest of the network and answer which parts of the rest of the network need fencing too, which I suspect will be large percentage, and then that needs a project to do much larger scale work to improve safety of the busway generally.
So, it's easier and cheaper to do nothing, until another accident happens somewhere else on the network, and more safety questions get asked...
