Granta Park

Granta Park is a science, technology and biopharmaceutical park on the banks of the River Granta, based in Great Abington, Cambridge, England.

The first idea for the park came from the then Chief Executive of The Welding Institute (TWI Ltd ) Bevan Braithwaite OBE. He began in 1992 with negotiations for an option to buy the 35 acres of mostly farmland, has now been built on the Granta Park. He received a building permit from the South Cambridgeshire District Council, which set the basic concept for a development with high quality and low density. A design team consisting of Latz Partner, one of Germany's leading landscape design firms, and Eric Parry Architects developed the master plan for the park in ecological criteria with the aim of maintaining and improving the existing landscape and ensured that the terrain is easily accessible. A partnership was formed between TWI Ltd and MEPC plc, which developed along the Granta Park Ltd. MEPC, which had already achieved a great success with Milton Park, Abingdon Oxfordshire, supported TWI Ltd professionally in implementing Bevan Braithwaite's vision of a new Science and Technology Park into reality.

After the groundbreaking ceremony at the end of 1997, the new park in Great Abington nahmn quickly taking shape. Bevan Braithwaite, Chief Executive of TWI Ltd, launched along with Councilwoman Shirley Saunders, Chairman of South Cambridgeshire County Council, and Gavin Davidson of MEPC plc to build the building cluster of modern research and development facilities. The majority of the infrastructure has been created according to plan in the summer of 1998 with the plan, the first phase of the building in less than 5-7 years to create The buildings are arranged around a central cricket field overlooking a newly created lake in the wooded area next to the historic Abington Hall. They contain the latest research facilities and offices for more than 1000 employees.

Granta Park not only provides new opportunities for extensive research and development for the research laboratories of The Welding Institute, but also meets the needs of the rapidly expanding in this area biotech and technology sector. The following companies are located there:

  • Colonix Medical Limited
  • Gilead Sciences Granta Park
  • Keronite
  • Mary 's Ltd
  • MedImmune
  • Pfizer Granta Park
  • PPD Global Limited Granta Park
  • Softwerx
  • TWI Ltd
  • UCB Celltech
  • Vernalis
  • Woodhead Publishing
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