Objective 4: To provide a new spatial structure with links to the city
Object
The New Museums Site Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Representation ID: 30698
Received: 01/09/2015
Respondent: John Sinton
There is an internationally recognized context to Cambridge. That context is largely provided by the buildings. Absent the buildings and connection to the past, there is no particular reason for the current and future university to be there at all. There are other rivers, other opportunities to create a 'new town' for the university if that is what is sought.
But to destroy these very connections in order to create a piecemeal 'new town' is to copy everything that was wrong with the original Arndale shopping development. How could we make the same mistakes again?
There is an internationally recognized context to Cambridge. That context is largely provided by the buildings. Absent the buildings and connection to the past, there is no particular reason for the current and future university to be there at all. There are other rivers, other opportunities to create a 'new town' for the university if that is what is sought.
But to destroy these very connections in order to create a piecemeal 'new town' is to copy everything that was wrong with the original Arndale shopping development. How could we make the same mistakes again?