Nayland Airfield Needs Your Help!

[Clive J]

Posted on behalf of John Cook:
We have applied for a certificate of established use for the Eastern Runway, which has been in use since the early 1980s.

However, because this is a legal matter and not a planning issue, we cannot present our overwhelming evidence at this stage.

Letters of support (no matter how well intentioned) are of no use as they are not able to be submitted either.

The issue is to be decided by a postal ballot and if you can witness that there is an Eastern Runway at Nayland - you can help.

We need your name and address and confirmation that there are two runways (the hill and the easterly). It is useful if you have flown from both but evidence is acceptable from people who also drove in etc.

Please send emails to: [email protected]
Thanks for your support!
John Cook

On behalf of Nayland Airfield



p.s. The closing date for your submissions is 19th November 2004!

[windy1]

We must support this cause

I've been in twice and Nayland has to be the one of the most steeply-sloping,one-way-in-regardless of-wind strips we have in UK. You'd have to go to an altiport to do stuff like this!

I have emailed as requested; come on ppruners!

[Clive J]

Nayland is under threat again from a particulaly nasty neighbour.
We have applied for a certificate of established use.It is a fact that there have been two runways at Nayland since approximately 1986, and we don't need to go back that far.But because it is a legal issue and not a planning one,the anomoly is that we cannot present our overwhelming evidence (which includes a statment from the local planning officer taken on oath!) .
The issue is decided by writing to interested parties and asking if they can confirm or deny the existance of the easterly runway,and in their oppinion has the level of use has altered.
The decision is then taken purely on the number of "letters for" as opposed to "against". Clearly this system is open to "rigging",which is where the nasty neighbour comes in.He is on record as saying"I am a multi millionaire,and I don't care how much money I have to throw at it,I will close Nayland airfield",He has even tried to buy it!

We need letters in volume to avoid going to appeal(in which case we could use our evidence,but at huge financial burdon),so if you have ever visited Nayland,please contact me iether by P.M. or email([email protected]).
The letters must be with me by18th november,which doesn,t give us much time.
Please help if you can,it may be your field next!
Thank you,John Cook, on behalf of Nayland Airfield.

More....

Many thanks to those that have emailed me directly,please take this post as confirmation that they have all been printed.
Most however are of limited use,as this is not a planning issue,but a legal one,letters of support (however well intentioned)are not submissable.
What we need are emails containing name and address,and confirming that there were 2 runways in use,ie the"hill" and the one to the left(east)of the hill.The only parameter is that you can say you saw both,you don't have to have flown.We are only out to prove they were both there!

We have ample proof,but are not able to submit it at this stage,all we can submit is statements to the effect that they were both there for more than 10 years before this October .
Many thanks . John.

E mail from last night:

Thanks very much for your help!they are coming in thick and fast,had to buy a new ink cartidge!!!!!!
many thanks ,John.

[Meldrew]

Many happy memories of operating from and flying in and out of Nayland during the eighties and nineties. I hope this sort of opposition can be strangled at birth!! I am afraid that I have only just noticed the posting on the subject and it is probably too late for my e-mail to be of any help, but I've sent it anyway. Good luck!: