Architect and masterplanner JTP has won planning permission for a development of 291 built-to-rent flats and a 202-room apartment hotel on the site of the former National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge.

The proposals, for Howes Green – on Huntingdon Road, north-west of Cambridge city centre – involve the demolition of all structures but the NIAB’s former headquarters building on the 2.85ha site.

The structure, designed by P R Morley Horder in the 1920s, is currently being converted to provide 68 new homes under separate proposals. NIAB moved to a new headquarters in Cambridge designed by Paul Evans Architects in 2020.

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