AWE submit planning application to West Berkshire Council for vast new development

AWE has submitted a planning application for a significant new development at the nuclear weapon facility.

Dubbed ‘the hub’, the complex proposal, which contains research laboratories, office space, engineering workshops, and a learning centre, would be spread over a vast 9.3 hectare area, equal to the size of just over 13 football pitches.

The development’s design and access statement says: “The hub development will provide a contemporary and significant work of architecture, whose key objective is to attract world class scientists, researchers, administrators and secure future operations through apprenticeship, learning and teaching spaces.”