Little missive from the Belgrano...
IN-2015/040: Regional Office Mail Deliveries
The purpose of this Information Notice is to advise the recipients of the withdrawal of mail processing and telephone support at the Regional Offices. With immediate effect CAA Regional Office administration functions have been centralised to Aviation House Gatwick.
Ah well, another nail in the coffin of the CAA as an effective and efficient Regulator.
It will be interesting to see how they manage if the UK leaves the EU and thus, I sincerely hope, EASA. Even though you might argue that leaving EASA puts us back to the CAA as a Regulator, and therefore is a Bad Idea, the reality is that we have the worst of all worlds at the moment; a bureaucratic nightmare in the form of EASA calling the shots, and the CAA ineffectively and inefficiently enforcing EASA's rules.
A CAA restored to its pre-EASA functions and authority might recreate itself if it can replace its present "leadership" with top-rate people. We can only hope. Presently it seems to function largely as a home for the otherwise unemployable, at least so far as Airworthiness is concerned, Initial and Continuing.