Abode launches in Cambridge
Countryside Properties' has launched award-winning Abode, a beautifully-designed collection of sustainable new homes for sale at Great Kneighton, Trumpington in Cambridge. The designs are a modern interpretation on traditional Cambridgshire architecture, and combines ‘city’ style with a traditional village layout. The development provides 306 new homes and offers stylish two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom houses as well as contemporary studios plus one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Abode forms a gateway to the wider village of Great Kneighton, Trumpington, which brings with it a wealth of proposed new amenities, a country park plus transport links to Cambridge city centre and beyond.
Abode has recently been honoured by a 2012 Housing Design Award, which praised an architectural approach that recognises the importance of different types of housing and the appropriate amount of open space around them. The award noted how well the designs gradually change from the landmark ‘Great Court’ entrance, through to urban mews housing and then to green lanes, which blends the development with its green surroundings. The ‘Great Court’ incorporates a formal area of planting forming an attractive bosquet of trees and two five-storey apartment buildings, inspired by the lofty gatehouses of historic Cambridge colleges.
Every property at Abode offers advanced eco-friendly features, minimising residents’ impact on the environment and helping to make savings on everyday energy and water bills. Examples of these eco-friendly features include photovoltaic panels, highly efficient heat recovering gas boilers, and mechanical ventilation & heat recovery systems which moderate the temperature throughout the home. In addition, a car club is set to be provided which will offer residents a cost effective and greener alternative to owning and running their own car.
Tony Travers, Managing Director of the New Homes and Communities division at Countryside Properties said: “Abode illustrates our long-standing commitment to commissioning good design and we are delighted to have already won a design award for the project. The development will provide a great place for residents to live with its own style and character, yet the roots of its design ethos come back to the mellow style of traditional Cambridge.”
Countryside Properties’ new community at Great Kneighton, Trumpington, is located on the southern edge of Cambridge city centre and is less than two miles from Addenbrooke’s Hospital. It is providing much needed new homes for the Cambridge area. The Great Kneighton community will include proposed new schools, shops, recreation, community and health facilities, as well as a country park that is over four times the size of the open space in the centre of Cambridge known as Parker’s Piece. This public open space will provide the local community with plenty of parkland, including wetlands and a bird reserve, allotments, an adventure playground, extensive woodlands, parkland sculptures and sports facilities for the planned secondary school.
The new homes at Abode include cycle parking areas which meet the Code for Sustainable Homes Guidance and residents benefit from Great Kneighton’s extensive new network of footpaths and cycleways. It is just a short walk from the existing bus services using Shelford Road and the new Cambridge guided bus route runs right through the development. The city Park and Ride is also close by, so the centre of Cambridge is within easy reach.
Travel links are excellent with Cambridge train station hosting frequent services to London’s Liverpool Street and King’s Cross stations as well as to Stansted Airport. The M11 is close by, providing a route into London, passing Stansted en route, while the A14 almost circles Cambridge and gives access to Newmarket, Huntingdon and Norwich.
Homes for sale at Abode are priced from £175,000. For further information, visit abodecambridge.co.uk.
