Go-ahead for plan to level Cambridge retail park for life-science hub

Plans to flatten Cambridge’s Beehive Centre retail park and replace it with a major cluster of offices and laboratories have been signed off by Housing Secretary Steve Reed.
The Coldhams Lane site — home to 17 retail units including a large Asda — will now become a 1m sq ft life-sciences employment hub after ministers overruled Cambridge City Council’s original refusal.
The council rejected the plans in February, warning that “enormous” new blocks would oversh