  We present a novel optimised design for a source of cold atomic cadmium,
compatible with continuous operation and potentially quantum degenerate gas
production. The design is based on spatially segmenting the first and
second-stages of cooling with the the strong dipole-allowed $^1$S$_0$-$^1$P$_1$
transition at 229 nm and the 326 nm $^1$S$_0$-$^3$P$_1$ intercombination
transition, respectively. Cooling at 229 nm operates on an effusive atomic beam
and takes the form of a compact Zeeman slower ($\sim$5 cm) and two-dimensional
magneto-optical trap (MOT), both based on permanent magnets. This design allows
for reduced interaction time with the photoionising 229 nm photons and produces
a slow beam of atoms that can be directly loaded into a three-dimensional MOT
using the intercombination transition. The efficiency of the above process is
estimated across a broad range of experimentally feasible parameters via use of
a Monte Carlo simulation, with loading rates up to 10$^8$ atoms/s into the 326
nm MOT possible with the oven at only 100 $^\circ$C. The prospects for further
cooling in a far-off-resonance optical-dipole trap and atomic launching in a
moving optical lattice are also analysed, especially with reference to the
deployment in a proposed dual-species cadmium-strontium atom interferometer.
