A new five-storey laboratory and office building has been approved as part of the “next generation” of buildings on Cambridge Science Park. Trinity College, which owns the freehold to the site, put forward the proposal for plot 440, an undeveloped site to the west of the Science Park, beside the Royal Society of Chemistry and Astex Pharmaceuticals buildings. Some concerns were raised about the 27-metre height of the building, with planning officers acknowledging it would be “significantly taller” than the existing building near where it will be built. But they said it “maximised” the use of th…
