Knights Park shortlisted for a RIBA East Award
13.02.25
We’re excited to share that Knights Park in Eddington, Cambridge - designed by Pollard Thomas Edwards and Alison Brooks Architects - has been shortlisted for an RIBA East Award.
Knights Park is a net-zero carbon, high-density development of 249 homes, forming a key part of the University of Cambridge’s 150-hectare Eddington urban extension. This growing community brings together academic and residential life, with local amenities including a primary school, nursery, health centre, hotel, supermarket, and shops.
Designed as a sustainable neighbourhood, Knights Park carefully integrates tree-lined avenues, lanes, and pedestrian-friendly ‘green streets’, creating a welcoming and walkable environment. The mix of terraced houses, courtyard homes, and villas - all built to Code Level 5 - offers flexible living spaces, including home offices with three distinctive ‘palazzo’ apartment buildings marking the transition into the neighbourhood.
Knights Park embodies the University of Cambridge’s vision for the neighbourhood and the wider placemaking strategy at Eddington.
Matt Johnson, Head of Development for North West Cambridge at the University of Cambridge
Quality of life is the centre of the focus here, and homes have been designed to provide a rich environment where sustainability integrated into everyday life is the new normal.
Tom Hill, Managing Director at Hill Group
