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The New Museums Site Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Representation ID: 30702
Received: 02/09/2015
Respondent: Dr William Tobin
Boris Jardine's article in The Guardian alerted me to the proposal to improve pedestrian access to the Old museums Site by piercing the back wall of the oldest part of the Old Cavendish Laboratory (the East Wing).
While recognising and approving of the respect for heritage, and feeling that there is insufficient respect for scientific and industrial heritage, my belief is that we must not let the past stiffle the present. So long as "existing window openings [are] sensitively adapted and possibly enlarged" this seems to me an appropriate compromise between past and present.
Boris Jardine's article in The Guardian alerted me to the proposal to improve pedestrian access to the Old museums Site by piercing the back wall of the oldest part of the Old Cavendish Laboratory (the East Wing).
While recognising and approving of the respect for heritage, and feeling that there is insufficient respect for scientific and industrial heritage, my belief is that we must not let the past stiffle the present. So long as "existing window openings [are] sensitively adapted and possibly enlarged" this seems to me an appropriate compromise between past and present.