Huawei's research headquarters, worth £ 37 million, is under threat as historic England warns that it could "destroy treasures of national importance"

PHuawei, China's largest privately owned company, to build a new, sprawling research facility in Cambridgeshire is threatened after experts warned that construction work could affect an iron-age fort ". national importance ", located nearby.

Huawei has already spent more than £ 37 million on land near the village of Sawston, Cambridgeshire, to build an on-chip research and development campus that will house more than 400 employees on an estate of 550 acres.

However, planning experts have warned that the site, which Huawei wants to use to design state-of-the-art semiconductors, borders the Iron Age-protected Fort, Borough Hill, rated "the best of the world". national importance »in …