1.3VStall,
IIRC the RAF Gliding moved out in 2004, at least that was around the time the closure/hand over meetings in respect to the Tech Site and the Airfield were held with DE.
Drove past the place a few weeks ago, there's been a bit of demolition on the domestic site but it’s nice to my old office was still standing (the original cookhouse, later converted to a cinema and located near the back gate across the road from the de-contamination building).
The tech site looks even more overgrown now but that comes as no surprise, there was a distinct reluctance to spend anything on it even back then.
As to the supposed decision to sell, again no real surprise there have been lots of attempts to sell the place with some pretty harebrained ideas being floated as to the potential use... One being to convert the hangers into flats.
In respect to planning issues and the local 10 year plan I was told by 'someone' during a site walkabout that the master plan was to just hold on to the place until such time that the local council rolled over on the 10 year plan and allowed expansion and housing in that direction and then sell it lock stock n barrel for development, there was no mention of any thoughts towards any historical consideration, if anything that seemed to be viewed as a very negative aspect of the whole thing and if it all fell down in a heap of bricks then so much the better!
Last edited by Always a Sapper; 15th Jun 2012 at 19:43.