Unbelievable apathy wrt 'recent' history abounds in the UK.
When I was a Greenham Common Commissioner after the site was returned to 'public' ownership I tried to get TPTB to look at the preservation of the CTB and its conversion to a small aviation museum. Funds would not have been a problem, given the number of US personnel that must have passed through its doors.
But oh, no, the local residents increasingly saw it as their own private playpark, and I remember the Commission meetings usually dissolved into a NIMBY yah-boo session worthy of PMQs...