paulc
Affirm, to the best of my knowledge aircraft owners paid £410 a year per aircraft access charge to use the airfield. This was in addition to any hangarage/tiedown charges.
Users paid in advance every six months and paid up until Sept 2006. Hampshire Police then stopped invoicing and no further payments were accepted from users. To date 18 months worth of fees that should have been invoiced have not been. If there were 100 based aircraft that's 61,500 of money due to the public purse that's not been collected.
Hampshire Police appear to have deliberately manipulated the situation so they could say that users paid nothing, had no right to be there, and had only been allowed to use the airfield on a grace and favour basis. Draw your own conclusions.