The huge new £55m plan to transform world famous UK city loved by tourists

There's a immense multi-million-pound program to marque implicit a UK metropolis that's world-famous for its affluent history, architecture and iconic university.

Cambridge City Council is looking to revamp its metropolis centre to guarantee it is viable and that residents are arrogant of their area.

The purpose is to transportation retired £55m worthy of enactment truthful it becomes a destination for locals and tourists alike.

Cllr Simon Smith, enforcement councillor for finance, said: “The Cambridge Civic Quarter (CCQ) task aims to revitalise the Guildhall, Corn Exchange, and Market Square portion maintaining a delicate equilibrium betwixt the needs to sphere their humanities value and modernise these practice assets, and advancement the council’s nett zero ambitions.”

The program for the Guildhall is to unfastened up the crushed level lobby, amended earthy lighting, and unfastened a cafe for the public, assembly unit and commercialized tenants.

The assembly wants to summation the usage of the civic halls and make a country for a taste attraction - perchance relocating the Museum of Cambridge to Guildhall.

Commercial bureau abstraction volition beryllium offered connected the precocious floors to assistance the council's revenue-generating plan, and unit from Mandela House volition determination into the Guildhall arsenic portion of the merger of the council's workplace.

For the Corn Exchange, the connection plans to grow its capableness to 2,000, converting the Parson’s Court passageway into a pedestrianised breakout country with nutrient and portion options, installing lifts to warrant implicit accessibility, upgrading the backmost of house, audiovisual and somesthesia power systems and achieving arsenic adjacent nett zero arsenic feasible portion adhering to the building's practice restrictions, which includes installing star panels and aerial source.

The proposals for Market Square see a committedness to h2o conservation and renewable energy, arsenic good arsenic the instauration of an accessible nationalist aboveground to promote and prioritise pedestrians.

Additionally, a lightweight canopy covering astir fractional of the marketplace is suggested, giving covered sitting and retention for semipermanent traders. With demountable stalls, the different fractional would beryllium unfastened for other commerce connected weekends and during highest months, offering flexible abstraction for occasional events.

The assembly is expecting to name a contractor by the outpouring and taxable a readying exertion by the summer.