Campus ANPR system

An Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system operates on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus as a measure to significantly reduce the use of campus roads as a through road for people not working on or visiting organisations on the Campus.

This system is a requirement of the development of the Campus over recent years to support the enforcement of driving restrictions on roads named in the local Traffic Regulation Order (TRO). It is intended to reduce traffic across the site and on the roads which connect the site to our local communities.

Cameras are placed at every entrance/exit and the fully automated ANPR system is triggered when a driver uses the Campus as a shortcut or through road, using an algorithm which is not made public to avoid gaming of the system.

644 prosecutions were issued in the year leading up to August 2023, which is the latest available data. This can be found on the Cambridge Constabulary’s website.

The ANPR system is the responsibility of Prologis, who are not a member of CBC Ltd and are not accountable to CBC Ltd. We can help direct correspondence on this directly to the relevant leads at Prologis, who are in dialogue with the Shared Planning Authority over the best way to enforce measures to prevent use of campus as a through road.

CBC Ltd please ask that drivers use the roads in to, out of and across the Campus for access to the buidings and car parks on site only, and not as a shortcut or through road.

The ANPR system is the responsibility of Prologis, who are not a member of CBC Ltd and are not accountable to CBC Ltd. We can help direct correspondence on this directly to the relevant leads at Prologis, who are in dialogue with the Shared Planning Authority over the best way to enforce measures to prevent use of campus as a through road.