The redevelopment could see new offices, labs, retail, and leisure offerings alongside a new home for a popular events venue
The potential sale of Cambridge Leisure Park could see a major redevelopment of the site including offices, labs, retail, and leisure opportunities. Cambridge Leisure Park currently hosts a hotel, car park, restaurants, cinema, and bowling alley.
According to a sales brochure by real estate company JLL, it is the city’s “only multiplex and drive-to leisure destination”. A proposed masterplan shows how the 8.4-acre site could be redeveloped.
The brochure explained: “The proposed master plan would comprise of massing ranges from 2 stories to 10 storeys. These buildings would comprise a mixed-use estate for Office, Lab, Retail, F&B, the Junction, Creative Workspace, Leisure, Car Parking and Energy centre.”
This includes a “new sustainable home” for the Cambridge Junction, which hosts a variety of events. The repurposing opportunities also suggest that a “big box retail warehouse space” could be explored to draw in shops such as M&S, TK Maxx, Next and Superdrug.
“Whilst the masterplan leans heavily on offices and lab space the current commercial environment and local need would also position this site favourably for the massing of multi-family, Co-living and senior living on those areas of the site currently designed for offices and labs, complimented by further retail and leisure uses,” the brochure continued.
The site currently has a 611 space multi-storey car park but the proposed plan has 145 spaces. Cambridge City Council is the freehold owner of the site and Land Securities is the leaseholder.
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