About | Storey's Field Centre | Community Centre Eddington Cambridge

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“Storey’s Field Centre aims to fulfil the ambitions expressed in its unique architecture, reflecting the aspirations of the communities it serves, where a vibrant cultural and social life inspires a sense of community and wellbeing”

Storey’s Field Centre is a landmark building in Eddington, a newly developed district in the north west of Cambridge on a triangle of land between Huntingdon Road, M11 and A14. The vision for Eddington is to create a new settlement with strong links to existing neighbourhoods, ambitious in scope and scale with a vibrant, active community and with a strong emphasis on sustainability running throughout the whole development. Storey’s Field Centre is a key part of the vision for Eddington offering an open and welcoming space for the community to come together with people from Cambridge and the surrounding area.

The Centre, which opened in Spring 2018, has been designed by McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA). Storey’s Field Centre provides a range of flexible spaces that caters for a variety of uses and residents’ needs.

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The initial brief to the architects, MUMA, was that this space should host a wide range of activities from theatre shows to fitness classes, from bingo nights to art shows, parent and toddler coffee mornings to tea dances, and from chamber music concerts to local rock band nights. Acoustic design plays a large part in the look and feel of the building. The hall’s design and proportions are based on Cambridge’s college chapels and great halls. This means that the natural acoustic of the hall is stunning making it perfect for chamber and choral music. Specially designed motorised acoustic banners can drop down from the ceiling to line the highly reflective walls to enhance spoken word and amplified music events. Complete with demountable staging, 48 way lighting system, column array sound reinforcement and high quality laser projector to enable a wide range of performances and conferences to take place. The main hall can seat up to 180 people with a sprung dance floor, a balcony and some dedicated storage. This hall has been used for a range pursuits from classical concerts to conferences, rock gigs to dance classes, ‘Jazzercise’ to Woodcraft folk, film clubs to fashion shows, weddings to art displays.

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Cycling

Eddington is a 15 minute cycle from the centre of Cambridge and has plenty of cycle parking. The Ridgeway is a cycle and pedestrian path running through Eddington connecting to Storey’s Way and Huntingdon Road and is supported by an extensive network of cycle and pedestrian routes. You can plan your cycle route on Cycle Streets, choosing the quietest or quickest route to suit.

Bus

Eddington is on the Universal Bus U1 and U2 routes, with the last bus departing from outside the Centre at 10.24pm Mondays-Saturdays, and 7.50pm Sundays. More info on the Universal Bus (including fare information and full timetable) can be found on the Whippet website.

Car

Eddington has been designed with sustainability in mind and as a result there is limited parking on site for residents and visitors to Eddington. A Travel Plan has been agreed and approved by local authorities and the University in consultation with travel groups and the wider community.

Sustainable travel is a large part of the Eddington Travel Plan so there is the dedicated U1 and U2 Buses (subsidised for University staff), extensive cycling and walking routes and provisions, and car club vehicles available. The final part of Eddington’s Travel Plan is the Car Parking Management Plan, which lays out the parking policies and procedures at Eddington. These apply to all drivers and are not targeted at any particular group. They are essential for managing traffic at Eddington and ensuring the safety of cyclists and pedestrians, including residents, school pupils, visitors, and other members of the public.

We encourage visitors to avoid travelling by car to Storey’s Field Centre where possible as there is limited parking available. We advise anyone driving to the Centre to park at Madingley Road Park and Ride, which is free (for up to 18 hours) and – using the new footpath in the north east of the car park – only a 5-10 minute walk away.

Parking charges in Eddington apply 8am-6pm Monday to Friday (including public holidays) and 10am-5pm Saturday to Sunday (including public holidays). The majority of spaces have a maximum stay of 2 hours and no return within 1 hour, there are some spaces on site with a maximum stay of 4 hours. There is free disabled parking on site for Blue Badge holders (please note time restraints still apply). Drivers must register for parking using on-street terminals or JustPark app.

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Opening Hours

The Centre is open for community activities Monday to Wednesday, and for one-off bookings and events Thursday to Sunday. Please see the events page for details and timings.

The office is staffed Monday to Friday from 09:00 – 15:00, or until the end of the last activity.

Storey’s Field Centre
Eddington Avenue
Cambridge CB3 1AA

Office: 01223 656 696

GPS: 52.21869015640021, 0.08867383003234865

Storey's Field Centre

“Storey’s Field Centre aims to fulfil the ambitions expressed in its unique architecture, reflecting the aspirations of the communities it serves, where a vibrant cultural and social life inspires a sense of community and wellbeing”

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