Cambridge University’s Girton College outline plans approved
Cambridge University’s Girton College outline plans to build 405 university student rooms have been approved. Girton College is one of thirty-one institutions of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1869. The College is distinctive for being Britain’s first residential college to provide degree level education to women.
Turley, on behalf of Girton College, have been preparing a planning application to expand the facilities on the campus to include new student accommodation, office and social space, an auditorium, sports pitch and tennis court allocation, new vehicular accesses and car parking.
Our Air Quality team assisted with assessing pollution that will be created by the expansion of facilities on the campus. The development is located adjacent to the A14 Corridor Air Quality Management Area which was taken into special consideration during the assessment.
We used dispersion modelling to predicting levels of annual NO2, PM10 and PM2.5. Two future years were modelled; 2025 and 2030. The results showed that the proposals would have a negligible impact on the area and future site users. A Dust Management Plan was also completed, and a list of mitigation measures were carefully selected to minimise the dust impacts from demolition, earthworks, construction and trackout activities. These will be implemented once construction starts.
