Bletchley Park Trust, the body that runs the Milton Keynes-based estate where codebreakers helped decrypt enemy messages during the second world war, has unveiled a new masterplan for the historic site.
The plan is based on four core principles: the creation of a world-class heritage site and museum; using second world war buildings; the further development of the education provision; the rationalisation of the site road system; and providing free access to part of the site to develop community links.
The masterplan also involves the expansion of the site's new National Museum of Computing, which is run by a separate independent trust.
The museum, which aims to raise £7m for an endowment, recently received a $100,000 joint donation from US technology firms IBM and PGP Corporation.
The existing main museum, which is housed in nine locations across the site including the park's Victorian mansion, would be concentrated in the north-west corner of the grounds.
A spokeswoman for Bletchley Park, which has been managed by a charitable trust since 1992 and receives no public funding, said: "We are in very positive talks with the Heritage Lottery Fund."
The trust has applied for accreditation through the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The masterplan follows an appeal by 97 academics to help save the park, which has fallen into disrepair.
The plan is based on four core principles: the creation of a world-class heritage site and museum; using second world war buildings; the further development of the education provision; the rationalisation of the site road system; and providing free access to part of the site to develop community links.
The masterplan also involves the expansion of the site's new National Museum of Computing, which is run by a separate independent trust.
The museum, which aims to raise £7m for an endowment, recently received a $100,000 joint donation from US technology firms IBM and PGP Corporation.
The existing main museum, which is housed in nine locations across the site including the park's Victorian mansion, would be concentrated in the north-west corner of the grounds.
A spokeswoman for Bletchley Park, which has been managed by a charitable trust since 1992 and receives no public funding, said: "We are in very positive talks with the Heritage Lottery Fund."
The trust has applied for accreditation through the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The masterplan follows an appeal by 97 academics to help save the park, which has fallen into disrepair.