Thank you for the feedback, moral of the story take better notes.
for those that have got carried away with the 'active' comment. I was repeating what was on the bottom of my page of notes. I think at the time of writing that it was but forward as a unplanned division (weather) into an unknown airfield/airport IE no plate information to hand etc. type request. As i said poor notes meaning I was confused by the phraseology and was failing to find confirmation of the answer in the usual places