Plans revealed for Reserve Cambridge at Shire Hall

20 July 2026
Illustrative exterior of Reserve Cambridge, the former Shire Hall facing the green

A year after we signed a 250-year lease with Cambridgeshire County Council for its former headquarters on Castle Hill, we shared more detail on our plans for the site.

Reserve Cambridge will be a calm, nature-led hotel with a spa, gym and a restaurant serving farm-to-fork food, partly grown on a small urban farm on site. It will be fully electric and powered by low-carbon renewable energy, offering guests a carbon-neutral stay, and is planned to open in 2028.

Alongside it, the former police station and registry office on the Shire Hall site will become Second Nature Cambridge, a predominantly new-build hometel incorporating the Grade II listed former police station, with the latest plans for 110 keys.

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