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There are licensed aerodromes not officially safeguarded who choose not to enter into any discussions with their LPA as they think that keeping heads down and being nice is the way forward. And in some cases it might well be.
There are others that enter into formal agreements with their (willing) LPA and lodge a safeguarding map. This won't be signed by the CAA as Official ones are.
Circular 01/03 saw the demise of CAA involvement in day to day safeguarding and it was transferred to the licence holders of the OS aerodromes. A missed opportunity was to have persuaded John Prescott to make all licensed aerodromes safeguarded and then there would have been a level playing field.
On the semantics lets replace tacit with unofficial or mutually agreed, friendly, cooperative or formal basis. What ever you call it the call in process that applies to OS aerodromes could be difficult to follow if an LPA Committee went against a non safeguarded objection to an application on the grounds of air safety, which in effect is the end game of being OS.
If you glance out of Barton's VCR you can't help noticing the Salford City Reds new stadium. Its size and location are directly linked to the Aero Clubs reticence to object on safety grounds due to who there landlord was.
Two ps esses. Marshalls of Cambridge and Cambridge City Council. Little Gransden and Cambridge County Council. Is there a conclusion to be drawn in terms of scale?
Also, Public Safety Zones are not the same as safeguarding but is in the process of reverting from whence it came.