Land At West Corner Of Imperial War Museum Royston Road Duxford Cambridgeshire
Proposal
Request for Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Opinion for detailed planning permission: new facility of circa 10,000sqm (GEA) for IWM including storage and conservation space for IWM (Phase 1A) within the IWM Duxford Museum Site (Use Class F1) and 3,500sqm (GIA) employment floorspace (Use Classes E(g), B2, B8) for advanced technology, innovation, research and development, offices, testing, manufacture and storage space primarily for air mobility, aviation technology and associated uses (Phase 1B) with associated access from A505, internal roads, car parking, landscaping, servicing and associated works within avtech site. Outline planning permission: up to 50,000sqm (gea) of employment floorspace (use classes E(g), B2, B8) within a number of new buildings for advanced technology, innovation, research and development, offices, testing, manufacture and storage (hangar) space primarily for Advanced air mobility, aviation technology and associated mi-tech related uses, cafe to serve development, with associated internal access, car parking, servicing, strategic landscaping/green infrastructure, internal roads, drainage attenuation and associated works.
- Received
- 13 March 2026
- Decided
- 28 April 2026 · EIA Scoping Report Issued
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Duxford
- ReceivedReceived13 Mar
- ValidatedValidated13 Mar
- Consult.Consultation8 Apr
- TargetTarget Date17 Apr
- DecidedDecided28 Apr
Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)
This is an outline application at Land At West Corner Of Imperial War Museum Royston Road Duxford Cambridgeshire. South Cambridgeshire has handled 845 applications of this type and approves 77% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. This one was decided in 46 days, 10 days quicker than South Cambridgeshire's median. The site is in the Duxford Airfield conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 95 applications across Duxford.
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- Conservation area: Duxford Airfield
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
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