Looks like Coltishall is going to be preserved
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Looks like Coltishall is going to be preserved
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 
Coltishall may get preservation order: key.Aero, Historic Aviation
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".....
Coltishall may get preservation order: key.Aero, Historic Aviation
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.
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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.
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.
Has the RAF ever re-commissioned a de-commissioned RAF airfield in recent times?
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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.
Always a variety of things in and out of there, when we had a varied and colourful Air Force.
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...
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Is Leeming. HMP Bure as now below:
RAF Coltishall sex offenders prison to be named HMP Bure - Norfolk News - EDP24
RAF Coltishall sex offenders prison to be named HMP Bure - Norfolk News - EDP24
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, light blue ...... green!
Jack
Depending on your definition of "recent", Brawdy looks like a good contender, having gone light blue, dark blue
, light blue ...... green!Jack
