Soham Eastern Gateway

We were appointed by This Land to support the delivery of a new development in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

The design and support included preliminary and detailed design of the realignment of the A142 for the site access, roundabout and junction design and modelling and the introduction of a boulevard style highway leading into the site.

We also designed segregated footways for pedestrians and cyclists with safe crossing points, undertook traffic modelling, and integrated a SuDS strategy into the wider masterplan with drainage ditches, large swales and attenuation basins.

A key challenge was to futureproof the A142 highway and not prejudice development to the east of the site.

We designed a four-arm roundabout to capture the size required to install the fourth arm in the future and provided appropriate size and space on splitter islands for safe crossing points to be easily added without major retrofitting works.

We managed the design through road safety audits and statutory approvals, creating a productive and meaningful working relationship with the local highways authority.