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New co-living development at Darwin Green in response to HMOs pressures
The development is for 240 co-living residential units as part of the Darwin Green development in North West Cambridge. Could these developments help reduce the frequency of family homes being converted into awkwardly-converted Houses of Multiple Occupation that they were never designed for? …Having lived in such a property in my university days in Brighton…
London Borough of Sutton to get splendid new lifelong learning centre – why can’t Cambridge have one too?
That’s not to say Cambridge isn’t getting any money, but policy-wise what little is recycled back through Whitehall’s algorithms is (understandably) being spent on ‘cold spots’ across the county. Image – Sutton College – Cambridgeshire doesn’t even have an adult education service logo! (It has two words in a font, the words indicating a much…
Campaigners publish map of Houses of Multiple Occupation in Cambridge
So, who owns what then? You can see the map at https://cambridgehmos.netlify.app/, and the original petition here – with the image screengrabbed for this post. The linked petition on Cambridge City Council’s website was debated on 16 July 2026 – see item 6 of the meeting papers here. Above – a screengrab of the map…
The Cambridge Town Owl 