Comment

Representation ID: 58016

Received: 12/12/2021

Respondent: Imperial War Museum/Gonville and Caius College

Agent: Tulley Bunting

IWM and Caius are supportive aims to transition to net zero carbon by 2050. IWM has already taken steps in terms of building design - new collections store most energy efficient building of its kind in world.

Committed to finding sustainable access solutions for future proposals with an accent on walking, cycling and public transport to an expanded Whittlesford Parkway. “Raison d’etre” of Avtech proposal is research and manufacture low carbon forms of air mobility. IWM decarbonisation plan to net zero by 2035, and infrastructure investment to ensure site is resilient to impacts of climate change.

In combining land resource of IWM Duxford and Caius the Avtech development is of sufficient scale to be commercially viable and accommodate designing for climate change and any environmental mitigations.