Michael Gove is drawing up proposals to turn Cambridge into Britain’s Silicon Valley, with as many as 250,000 new homes built over the next two decades and the prospect of billions of pounds of investment.
The plan, drawn up in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) in recent months, forms part of a blueprint to fix England’s housing crisis and unleash growth in the life sciences and technology sectors.
It is also seen as a way of boosting the so-called golden triangle between London, Oxford and Cambridge. The project, which has been kept tightly guarded, is being referred to as “Cambridge 2040”.
While the scheme is still at “concept” stage, sources said the proposals envisage a huge expansion of the city, which
