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NutLoose
27th Jul 2010, 15:52
Shame the have already built a bloody sex offenders prison on some of it..... full of degenerates and perverts........................... and then the RAF moved out :ok::}:p

Coltishall may get preservation order: key.Aero, Historic Aviation (http://www.key.aero/view_news.asp?ID=2326&thisSection=historic)


Gary Parsons - 27-Jul-2010

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July 27: Planning Resource magazine reports that the former Royal Air Force station at Coltishall in Norfolk could be designated a conservation area to “ensure that any future development does not harm its historic character”

RAF Coltishall was the only Battle of Britain airfield to have remained a front-line fighter station until its closure in 2006. Local planning authorities Broadland and North Norfolk District Councils say that the airfield has much historic interest ranging from the architecture to the “unique military graffiti in the hangars”, which date from the 1991 Gulf War.

Conservation status would manage any new development “to ensure that those qualities which warranted designation are sustained and reinforced, rather than eroded”. Some of the accommodation buildings have already been converted into detention centre for category C adult male sex offenders by the Prison Service and renamed HMP Bure.


Just think 20 years from now you will be able to take the kids and say, "look, this is what a military Airfield used to look like, back in the day when we had a Military, sadly all of the others have long gone".....

jez_s
27th Jul 2010, 16:02
Has the RAF ever re-commissioned a de-commissioned RAF airfield in recent times?

Megaton
27th Jul 2010, 16:07
Wyton was decommissioned to some extent before being re-opened, wasn't it? And the Reds moved out of Scampton for a while....before moving back in again.

BEagle
27th Jul 2010, 16:16
Has the RAF ever re-commissioned a de-commissioned RAF airfield in recent times?

RAF Chivenor, aka 'Heaven in Devon'. Wonderful place, possibly the best station in the RAF - and then it was transferred to the Royal Marines....:mad:

tezzer
27th Jul 2010, 16:32
RAF Leconfield, given to the Army who put traffic lights and roundabouts all over that lovely runway. RAF Driffield, similar fate. Gutted when it happened as we lived on the approach to Leconfield, and used to watch the lightnings of 5 & 11 Sqn. when they moved in from Binbrook.
Always a variety of things in and out of there, when we had a varied and colourful Air Force.

Sleeping
27th Jul 2010, 16:47
So where is the airfield pictured in the link? Don't look like Colt to me!:confused:

Jackonicko
27th Jul 2010, 17:38
http://www.key.aero/central/images/news/2326.jpg

Jaguars, yes. Colt? I don't think so either.

taxydual
27th Jul 2010, 17:44
Leeming, by the looks of it.

Future Hunter
27th Jul 2010, 17:49
Look more like Hawks at Leeming to me!

Jackonicko
27th Jul 2010, 17:50
'Awks indeed. Sorry!

Lyneham Lad
27th Jul 2010, 20:05
Eeeh, was reet tough in my day - we had t'park us cars on't bluddy square, none of this 'ere parking reet outside t'bluddy hangar. Soft Jessies...:cool:

kemblejet01
27th Jul 2010, 21:47
"Shame the have already built a bloody sex offenders prison on some of it..... full of degenerates and perverts........................... and then the RAF moved out"

Ah... usual Friday night then. Another new low - I'm so ashamed...

KMB01

mick2088
27th Jul 2010, 22:03
Is Leeming. HMP Bure as now below:

RAF Coltishall sex offenders prison to be named HMP Bure - Norfolk News - EDP24 (http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED11%20Sep%202009%2013%3A02%3A35%3A557)

colinhunn
27th Jul 2010, 22:29
Hopefully this means that the TAG aircraft dismantling project will more likely get the go ahead.

Union Jack
27th Jul 2010, 22:39
Has the RAF ever re-commissioned a de-commissioned RAF airfield in recent times?

Depending on your definition of "recent", Brawdy looks like a good contender, having gone light blue, dark blue:ok:, light blue ...... green!:eek:

Jack