Surrey County Structure plan - Deadline 21st February 2003.
If you care about flying into or out of Surrey, please write to object to the latest draft County Structure plan. Replies must be in by 21st February 2003.
Either write or email responses. A form for email responses is on the Surrey web site, at:
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsit...56ca8004aa3b8/$FILE/Respond%20email%20word.doc .
emails are to go to
[email protected] .
To write by snailmail, subject Representations on Deposit Draft 2002, the address seems to be Surrey County Council Strategic Planning, County Hall, Penrhyn Rd., Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2DN.
Contact centre: 08456 009 009
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From "Action for Airfields": Surrey County Council originally published its draft structure plan (the subject of a previous A4A alert) in January 2001. The consultation process was suspended whilst the Council reviewed the newly published Regional Planning Guidance for the South East (RPG9).
The latest revision of the draft structure plan was recently re-issued and interested parties have until February 21st to respond. The section which deals with General Aviation in the county has changed, but still proposes policies which remain very negative towards GA including:-
Any development at Redhill likely to cause intensification of flying or other related activities will be resisted;
No development of new airfields, and no re-opening of disused airfields;
Private landing sites and farm strip planning will be judged on environmental impact;
Limited development of business aviation at Fairoaks will be permitted.
In an apparent softening of attitude towards the potential future use of Dunsfold this former British Aerospace site is excluded from the proposed policy barring the development of new airfields or the reopening of disused airfields.
If allowed to pass unchallenged, these policies will form the basis of local plans for the next 15 years at least.
Action.
Submit your comments by e-mail or post objecting to the negative policies towards GA using one of the forms supplied by the council. In doing so it is important that letters are individually worded and not simply duplicated. It is well worth submitting comments even if you are not resident in Surrey. By its very nature General Aviation has an interest in the promotion of aerodromes throughout the country. Do not feel that you have to write an essay or become an expert in planning law overnight. Other organisations will represent the interests of GA in detail - our job is to support them with a high letter count expressing individual support for GA
This and other details and links are shown on the Action for Airfields web site, at :
http://www.airfields.org.uk/alerts/surrey_030126.htm .