Being a pioneering timber-framed building does not justify having a spreadsheet-style design of a building at the main gateway of one of the UK’s most historic cities
TL/DR? Have your say here
If you don’t like spreadsheet architecture, see Humanise here and their call for a new set of principles:
I wrote about the consultation back in May 2025 here. Earlier this evening (08 Sept 2025) the developers came back with further proposals – see https://ketthouseconsultation.co.uk/
Above – Carbuncle-tastic – the proposed 49m tower that, with Botanic House opposite it on either side of Hills Road at the regularly-congested Station Road Corner, risks creating a wind tunnel effect as well as contributing to a significant loss of natural light on Station Road.
It’ll be interesting to see what air pollution modelling shows for that part of Cambridge.
“What would you have liked to have seen”
Something that reflected or was inspired by the original Kett House built by the family with the same name.
Above – the original Kett House site from Capturing Cambridge here
There’s very little else for me to say other than I’m resigned to the development being rubber-stamped as the blandification of my home town continues.
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