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*STRONGLY ADVICE TO CARRYOUT YOUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE 1/13 INTRODUCTION is a university city and the country town of , on the river Cam approximately miles (89km) north of London. As of 2019, the population of the Cambridge built-up area (which is larger than the remit of Cambridge City Council) was 158,434 including 29,327 students. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology Silicon Fen with industries such as software and bioscience and many start-up companies born out of the university. Over 40 per cent of the workforce have a higher education qualification, more than twice the national average. Cambridge is a pleasant city to live in with a family. has a variety of houses, at various prices, which are suitable for families. De Freville Avenue is a beautiful long street full of large, family homes and close to the river4. 2/13 EDUCATION

Cambridge two universities, the collegiate and the local campus of Anglia Ruskin University, serve around 30,000 students, by some estimates. Cambridge University estimated its 2007/08 student population at 17,662, and Anglia Ruskin reports 24,000 students across its two campuses (one of which is outside Cambridge, in Chelmsford) for the same period. Both state and independent schools serve Cambridge pupils from nursery to secondary school age. State schools are administered by Cambridge shire County Council, which maintains 251 schools in total, 35 of them in Cambridge city. Cambridge is the best city is world in terms of education4.

3/13 TRANSPORT FACILITIES

Cambridge has its own airport, Cambridge City Airport, it has no scheduled services and is used mainly by charter and training flights as well FBO services. , about 30 miles (48 km) south via the M11 or direct rail, offers a broad range of international destinations4. The Cambridge shire Guided Busway, known locally as The Busway, connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in the English county of Cambridge shire. It is the longest guided busway in the world, overtaking the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia. As a university town lying on fairly flat ground and with traffic congestion, Cambridge has the highest level of cycle use in the UK. Cambridge railway station was opened in 1845, initially linking to Bishopsgate station in London, via Bishops Stortford. Today, Cambridge station has direct rail links to London with termini at London King's Cross (via the Cambridge Line and the ), Liverpool Street (on the ).

4/13 Sandhills (0.4 m HEALTH CARE CENTRE

• Cambridge is served by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with several smaller medical centers in the city and a teaching hospital at Addenbrooke's. Located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke's is one of the largest hospitals in the and is a designated regional trauma center • The Ambulance Service covers the city and has an ambulance station on Hills Road. The smaller Brookfield Hospital stands on Mill Road. Cambridge shire Constabulary provides the city's policing; the main police station is at Parkside, adjacent to the city's fire station, operated by Cambridge shire Fire and Rescue Service4 5/13 TOURIST INFO

Famous the world over for its university, Cambridge lays claim to having one of the highest concentrations of preserved historic buildings anywhere in England. Most of this architectural splendor is centered around Cambridge University's 31 colleges, each rich in tradition. The most famous museum in Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam should be included on everyone's must-see list of tourist attractions. This masterpiece of architecture contains a magnificent collection of English pottery and china, as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities, and illuminated manuscripts. One of the most popular museums in Cambridge, the Museum of Cambridge has displays and exhibits focusing on the everyday lives of the local people from the 18th to the 20th centuries. King's College is worth visiting for the huge expanse of lawn extending down to the river and King's Bridge, with its lovely views of the Backs, the various college grounds along the riverside4.

6/13 LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

• As of 2018 the city contains six public libraries, run by the County Council • The first public library was opened in 1855 at Jesus Lane. Now, it is located on the Grand Arcade shopping center • The Cambridge Science Festival, typically held annually in March, is the United Kingdom's largest free science festival • Fictionalized versions of Cambridge appear in Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden and Minnow on the Say, the city renamed as Castleford, and as the home of Tom Sharpe’s fictional college in Porterhouse Blue4

7/13 CRIME RATE

• Cambridge is relatively safe, though unfortunately, it is still not recommended to wander around on your own at night (the same as most places in the UK). Cambridge has a surprisingly high sexual violence rate, so be on your guard. • Most crimes, 10.4k crimes were violent crimes which is 27.4% of all crimes committed in the area. Violent crime rate is at 77% of national crime rate. • The pie chart beside shows the crime rate in different sector5

8/13 FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

There are many new developments in and around Cambridge. Below are a selection of the key sites that are built and others that are currently under development: • In total there are plans for 1,593 new homes, with 40 per cent of them being listed as affordable housing. There are also plans for a primary school with a children's center, retail units, a central park, and allotments. • The Northstowe development, will become the biggest new town since Milton Keynes, with plans to have more than 10,000 homes on the former RAF Oakington site. The new town will fall in the Longstanton ward of South Cambridge shire District Council. • Just minutes from Cambridge city center, Great Kneighton is an exceptional new development being created by Countryside Plc, in one of the most sought-after areas in south Cambridge. • The 270-hectare site lies six miles from Cambridge City Centre, and proposals included a mixture of housing, two primary schools, a secondary school, shops and sports and leisure facilities. • Plans for new homes on the site of the former army barracks in Water beach have been approved. The plan also includes new schools and a health center, as well as significant transport investment and green space on the 715 acres of browfield land at the barracks. • Wing, a major new quarter is planned for the city, with 10,000 to 12,000 homes earmarked for farm land north of Newmarket Road. 9/13 ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION • You will need planning permission from the Cambridge city council to: • build an extension to the side of a building • build any structures, enclosures, pools or containers at the side of a building • build a rear extension of more than one storey • build a rear extension of greater than three meters depth for an attached house, or four meters for a detached property • clad the outside of your house • materially add to or alter the roof • put a satellite dish or antenna on a chimney, roof slope or wall which faces onto, and is visible from, the highway; or on a building which is higher than 15m • install, alter or replace a chimney, flue or soil vent pipe on a wall or roof slope which fronts a highway and is part of the main or side elevation of the house • install solar photovoltaic (PV) or thermal equipment which would: • protrude more than 200 millimeters beyond the plane of the wall or the roof slope when measured from the perpendicular with the external surface of the wall or roof slope • result in the highest part of the solar PV or solar thermal equipment being higher than the highest part of the roof • be installed on a wall forming the main or side elevation of a house and which would be visible from a highway, or it would be on a wall of a building within the curtilage of a house and would be visible from the highway • be installed on a building within the curtilage of the dwelling house if the dwelling house is a listed building6.

10/13 AVERAGE PROPERTY VALUE IN THE MARKET

Investing in Cambridge is a good opportunity as the city is frequently named as one of the best cities for buy to let, due to its high proportion of young professionals and modest house prices. Due to its increasing popularity, house prices are rising, and have been forecast to rise at a faster rate than London. • Average Price Paid: £441,878 • Current Average Value: £ 419,877 • Value Change: £39,391 (-8.58%)1 • Reference: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/cambridgeshire/cambridge/ (15-07-2020)

11/13 REFERENCES

1. https://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/cambridgeshire/cambridge/ 2. https://checkmypostcode.uk/ha36nx#.Xj3s1mj7TIU 3. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/houseprices/detailMatching.html?prop=3786529&sale=458463 27&country=England 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge 5. cambridgesciencepark.co.uk/community/lifestyle/housing/future-planning-and-development/ 6. https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/check-for-constraints-on- development#:~:text=Article%204%20directions%20allow%20us,rights%20through%20plan ning%20permission%20conditions. 7. https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Cambridge-crime-stats.html

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