Granta Park
Granta Park is a science, technology and biopharmaceutical park located on the banks of the River Granta in Great Abington in Cambridge , England.
The first idea for the park came from the then Chief Executive of The Welding Institute (TWI Ltd) Bevan Braithwaite OBE. He began negotiating an option in 1992 to buy mainly the 35 hectares of farmland on which Granta Park has now been built. It received planning permission from South Cambridgeshire District Council which set the basic concept for high quality, low density development. A design team consisting of Latz + Partner, one of the leading German landscape design companies, and Eric Parry Architects developed the master plan for the park, taking ecological criteria into account, with the aim of maintaining and improving the existing landscape maintenance and ensuring that the area was maintained is easily accessible. A partnership was formed between TWI Ltd and MEPC plc, which together developed Granta Park Ltd. MEPC, which had already achieved a great success with Milton Park in Abingdon Oxfordshire, professionally supported TWI Ltd in turning Bevan Braithwaite's vision of a new Science and Technology Park into a reality.
After the groundbreaking at the end of 1997, the new park in Great Abington quickly took shape. Bevan Braithwaite, the Chief Executive of TWI Ltd, together with City Councilor Shirley Saunders, Chairman of South Cambridgeshire County Council, and Gavin Davidson of MEPC plc started to build the building cluster from modern research and development facilities. Most of the infrastructure was completed on schedule in the summer of 1998 with the plan to complete the first phase of the building in less than 5-7 years. The buildings are arranged around a central cricket field overlooking a newly landscaped lake in the wooded grounds adjacent to historic Abington Hall. They contain the most modern research facilities and business premises for several thousand employees.
Granta Park not only offers new opportunities for extensive research and development for the research laboratories of The Welding Institute, but also meets the needs of the rapidly expanding biotech and technology sector in the area. The following companies are located there:
- Colonix Medical Limited
- Gilead Sciences Granta Park
- Keronite
- Mary's Ltd
- MedImmune
- Pfizer Granta Park
- PPD Global Limited Granta Park
- Softwerx
- TWI Ltd
- UCB Celltech
- Vernalis
- Woodhead Publishing
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- ↑ A science park built in consideration of ecological criteria ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Science Park History ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Groundbreaking ceremony for new Science Park ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Connect March - April 1998.
- ↑ Building for the future ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Connect, March - April 2002, p.2
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 0 ° 13 ′ 23.6 ″ E