So surely the time has come to have an all encompassing LARS service, certainly in the south of England, provided not by individual airfields, but centrally from either Swanwick or W. Drayton.
This is certainly possible, and could be done by the London Military provided that they got the proper funding to staff the service.
As technology improves, there's no reason why, with the exception of perhaps extreme areas, the service could not be done on this basis UK wide.
We're not an official LARS provider, but we spend a lot of our time giving an equivilant service and get no income at all.
From a civil ATC viewpoint, this would certainly free up more time to give a better and more efficiant service to our own paying customers at the airfield, and also, for the most part, coordination against LARS traffic would be relatively simple.
It would take some considered thought on all sides to implement it, but it would be a better and more efficiant service than we have at present.