FL I've signed up obviously, and originally I wrote to my MP (Rifkind) who extracted a reply from Milliband promising to "consider reinstating the airfield clause". Their line was very much that dropping the airfield clause was an issue of drafting rather than policy.
In the original text which we felt gave us some protection, both airfields and hospital sites were singled out as 'brownfield sites' that were nevertheless deserving of special protection. My question to you (since I can't find the text of either the original PPG3 or the new one) is did they keep the hospital exemption whilst dropping the airfield one, or did they drop both ?
Their claim that they have nothing against airfields would be much more suspect if they had kept the hospital example.