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A most
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Cambridge Biomedical Campus:
UKSPA 2017 Most Successful Project
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Creative Places
UKSPA 2017 Award winner:
Most Successful Project
Recognised for its
pivotal role in the development
of the truly outstanding
and globally recognised
Biomedical Campus project
in Cambridge
he Cambridge Biomedical
Campus (CBC) is now one
of the leading locations for
Biomedical R&D in Europe.
Truly outstanding on a global
perspective, the CBC continues to deliver
extraordinary results for its promotional
stakeholders and end user businesses.
Creative Places, niche advisors on
research and commercial R&D real estate
delivery, has played a pivotal role in
CBC’s success. Recognition of the team’s
input brought them the 2017 UKSPA
Award for Most Successful Project.
C r e at i v e P l a c e s
In the 1990s, Jonathan Burroughs, now
CEO of Creative Places, played a key role
R e a d o n l i n e at: u k s pa . o r g . u k / b r e a k t h r o u g h
in setting stakeholder objectives with the
creation of Addenbrooke’s 2020 Vision.
He undertook this work while heading
development and commercial agency
work at Bidwells, and has remained at the
forefront of the project through to today.
In 2009, Jonathan and John
Sommerville formed Creative Places,
agreeing a partnership role, working
alongside Bidwells as the project moved
towards its delivery phase. In support of
CBC developers Liberty Property Trust
and Countryside Properties, Cambridge
University Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust, and Pemberton Trustees (private
landowners), Creative Places has helped
bring forward the development over
the last 20 years. Involved in every
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