Object
The New Museums Site Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Representation ID: 30716
Received: 02/09/2015
Respondent: Prof Tom McLeish
Representation Summary:
The paragraph suggests that the proposed development merely destroys an 'almost blank and very plain back wall of the [old] Cavendish Laboratory'. It fails to say is that on the other side of this way is an ivy-covered frontage which is undoubtedly one of the most iconic scientific buildings in the world.
This is the building where the electron was discovered, the atom first split by deliberate bombardment, the structure of DNA discovered. The destruction of this building unique to the highest points of 20th century physics is unacceptable.
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