Can more be done to protect our aerodrome heritage?

Can more be done to protect our aerodrome heritage?

A few years ago English Heritage conducted a "Thematic Study" into airfield buildings. As a result, around 180 buildings (out of approximately 100,000 built) on around 40 sites (out of approximately 740 built) were recommended for statutory protection. But could more be done, and if so what?

More important is this: what have YOU done to help protect our endangered aerodrome heritage? I'm just curious to discover what methods have been used by individual contributors. Perhaps you can post your experiences or success stories, not to mention your suggestions and hot tips.

Phil Rhodes

I expect the next significant development in this general topic will be later this year when the government are set to finalise major new changes to the laws protecting our national heritage - I forget the details right now and suspect there is more on the English Heritage website but it looks like all protected buildings and structures/features will be re-designated with new terminology (ie no longer will there be either Listed or Scheduled items but protected historic structures instead). I believe English Heritage - who have been consulting widely on such matters for the past year or so - are likely to be given increased responsibility and hopefully greater resources too. Maybe Norwich Paul knows more about all this?

How about this one . . . RAF Uxbridge is to be closed, sold to developers & built on ! How sad is that ?

norwichpaul wrote:

Pillboxes and BHQs are never listed.

Following on from the Defence of Britain survey in the late 90's several pillboxes, especially where they are found in groupings, are now protected.

If anyone is interested there is a thread here about a proposed demolition of a pillbox which has now been stopped twice helped partly by the large number of objections recieved by the planning department. I realise that this pillbox is only listed as it is within the the garden of a listed building rather than being listed itself but it shows what can be done if enough people object.

pillboxstudygroup.freeforums.org/pillbox...l-guildford-t59.html