Top Gear is not the end
I attended a meeting at Dunsfold after it had been closed, with crosses on the runways, for a couple of years, and the developers with big ideas moved in.
They had a young lady with a roving mic' to take people's opinions.
As ( it seemed ) most of those present had moved in while the 'field was dormant, the general theme was " you're not going to have any of those nasty noisy aeroplane thinghies are you ?! "
Eventually I and the small group of Hawker/BAe people present had enough, and when offered the mic' I said "this airfield was built during World War 2, anyone heard of it ? It was quite a big thing at the time !
Afterwards it was the place which sent out some of this country's greatest exports - my ex-Manager ( John Farley ) had a phrase, 'UK Ltd' - a lot of NIMBY's sitting here would do well to think of that ! "
You can guess the way this was received, from the 2 groups present...