UK Government<\/a> will support Invictus and whether the multi-million project goes to Kintyre or Cornwall is expected over the next 12-18 months.\n<\/p>\n\n The advantages of Invictus, supporters say, is hundreds of high-quality well-paid jobs, a population boost, busier schools and shops and restaurants, and long-term commitment from a project based on highest-end technology.\n<\/p>\n
\n The peninsula has seen the impact of other industry over the years. The area attracted wind turbine production, and Danish multinational Vestas and latterly CS Wind, employed up to 90 staff producing wind turbines.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAlthough there is no wind turbine production at the moment, a lot of the guys that were at school with me got great training as engineers that gave them a life-time skill\u201d, says Ms Clements. \u201cAnother benefit was that the roads were done up for the turbine producers and these good roads would work well for Invictus.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Spaceport Cornwall is the UK\u2019s first licensed horizontal launch spaceport, with a 2,744 metre runway. It has said it hopes that it can provide better connectivity for the space-race development, and emphasised its “world-class facilities, operational versatility, and strategic position within both civilian and military aviation infrastructure”.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Kintyre, in turn, hopes its location near the end of a peninsula will be a positive attraction for a high energy experimental and technologically advanced project.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA limited population is probably a great attraction for this development\u201d, Ms Clements says. \u201cWe are checking out all funding channels that could help make the site more attractive for Invictus.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs well as good roads, we have a superb deep water port at Campbeltown which would work well for the Invictus project.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere is a lot of local support and a lot of community experience after 50 years of RAF and NATO in Machrihanish. We already have accommodation available on the MACC site for about 100.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Clements, business development manager at MACC, said: \u201cLike many rural communities we struggle with depopulation and this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}