BIGGIN HILL MUSEUM

Apologies if there’s another thread on this, I looked but couldn’t find one.

Bromley Council have given planning permission for the new museum to be built, except that it isn’t a Museum as most people would understand it and in the process they’re going to damage a historic building. There’s been lots of opposition but it was ignored

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/bromley/15432248.Plans_for_memorial_museum_at_Biggin_Hill_given_green_light_despite_petition/

http://www.bromley.gov.uk/info/200070/museums_and_galleries/1031/biggin_hill_memorial_museum

There won’t be room for many exhibits, if any, it will be limited to some words and pictures on walls.

On the other side of the airfield is a small area with a WW2 E Type blast pen, a wooden hut that was used as a crew room etc during WW2 and what are reputed to be 264 Squadron dispersal buildings. All are in reasonable condition, well capable of being restored but have been ignored. It wouldn’t have taken that much money to build some sort of struture over them to protect them and make a museum that had exhibits showing the aircraft and people that operated from there and the industry and GA that has operated from there.

Bromley Council have show a serious lack of imagination over this, they clearly don’t take the idea of a musuem seriously, they just wanted to tick a box.