Hi,
You can go to
Strathaven Airfield - Microlight Flying, and Home of the Scottish Flying Club for our airfield's response to the local council's issue of Supplementary Planning Guidance on Renewable Energy.
You will see the draft pdf a little down the page.
(The council's Local Plan was ammended between Final Draft and Adopted to expand Europe's largest onshore wind farm so as it covered out airfield!)
We already had a 3km radius safeguarding plan lodged with the council.
We are now preparing a "wind turbine" safeguarding plan, as recommended by the CAA. For this, we will be lloking at a 5km radius. The point is that the unseen wake vortices may penetrate the 3km radius - so cause an obstruction within 3km of the airfield (even though that obstruction is "invisible").
Key points:
The CAA states there is no knowledge of flight trials anywhere in the world. So - you are not against wind energy, you are against anything that will make the airfield ususeable, unless the developer can prove otherwise with full flight trials.
Second: in planning, to get change of use, from - say - a sports field to housing, you have to show there is no more need for the sports field. Same for an airfield to wind farm. So the healthier you can show your club and business, the better.
Get in there with the councillors now! They like to feel they know what is going on, so keep them on top and on side. Remember, once someone has made up their mind, it is hard to change it.
Although this is Scottish law, in planning it is very similar in England and Wales.
PM me if I can give any more help.