I think i got told by my dad when he worked there fopr a few months contracting that some of the buildings are heratage listed meaning they cant be torn down. Be interesting to see how BAE Systems get around this and id like to see the airfield turned into a flying club or historic museum or something else still keeping it as an airfield. Shame the woodford airshow ant happening by the looks of it never been to it just down the road
It doesn't mean they can't be torn down at all, it means that appropriate permission needs to be granted for that to happen. As the real estate will be extremely valuable given the location and could be used for any number of income generating businesses bringing jobs to the area I don't think it'll be that difficult to persuade the powers that be to agree to demolition if they can't be used as part of any future developments. It's happened before on many occasions.