Hi all, you may recall me posting a request for letters following the application for two adjoining warehouses. This application has been withdrawn. However a second application has been submitted and your help is again requested… Here’s the letter from the owner of my club:

“Dear Member

You may recall me writing to you regarding the proposed planning application submitted by Astral Developments for a warehouse-like construction on the airfield close to runway 05/23. My thanks to all of you who wrote in and objected to this, I know there were quite a few. Astral have now dropped this application.

However a new one has been submitted, essentially the same plans as before but with a reduction in the height of the building from 15 metres to 12.
They have also radically redesigned the roof. The new plans are designed to allay any fears that we may have regarding the safe operations of runway 05/23, however, they make little or no difference to our original objections. Indeed, it is quite possible that the new roof design will make matters worse with regard to wind vortices and turbulence.

Plans can be viewed in the airfield manager’s office.

It is obvious that Astral Developments are not going to let this drop. Our original concerns still stand, this will affect safe operations at Wellesbourne and may ultimately close the runway.

Therefore, we need to write again. The original letters will no longer count against this new proposal and it is vital that we voice our concerns once more. Letters should be sent by 25 October 2005 to:

Les Greenwood
Stratford Upon Avon District Council
Elizabeth House
Church Street
Stratford upon Avon
CV37 6HX

Or email to [email]les.greenwood@stratford-dc.gov.uk[/email]

Quote reference 05/02845/FUL Land in North East Sector of Wellesbourne Mountford Aerodrome

As pilots, I know you will realise the importance of resisting these developments and I urge you to express your concerns once again, in the strongest terms.

Peter Newbold”