Well said Peter. Just to add to the comment above about “pi55ing off” councilors over the years. As Peter Mills has correctly pointed out. This land was NOT Green belt when it was purchased in 1989, specifically to house a museum collection. You don’t need planning permission to park an airframe in your back yard when it is not Green Belt land. It was re classified as Green Belt some time later, and incredibly, back dated!! An illegal act by today’s rules. The council therefore created this situation in the first place, by unfairly shifting goal posts.

Those same councilors that we have been “pi55ing off” over the years have 1) Got us to jump through hoops over the last 20 years, which we have fully complied with 2) Allowed us to exist and open to the public as a museum for the past 15 years 3) Approached and invited GAM to submit a new application 18 months ago ,due to “favorable conditions” 4)Specified in black and white that “the aircraft are significant and important”

And all the while have maintained an enforcement notice against us for the last 20 years.. So as you can see, we feel this is duplicitous. We are simply fighting for what is right.