Statement from the directors and management:
** CORNWALL AVIATION HERITAGE CENTRE TO CLOSE FROM 31ST OCTOBER 2022 **
It is with heavy hearts and dismay that we can confirm that we are set to close permanently following Cornwall Council’s decision to no longer support our museum and therefore evict us from our site without viable alternatives being offered.
The Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre is a unique, highly successful, interactive aerospace visitor centre and education hub based at Cornwall Airport, near to the new Spaceport Cornwall.
CAHC was created by local people, is privately funded, pays commercial rents to Cornwall Council and is becoming nationally recognised as an aerospace site of excellence, yet Cornwall Council have failed to recognise the cultural & heritage value of our museum.
The Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre (‘CAHC’) is a unique, popular, growing, tourism, heritage and education centre.
Situated at Cornwall Airport near to the new Spaceport project, it is locally owned and operates with no support from Cornwall Council who, as owners of Cornwall Airport, are its landlords.
For 7 years CAHC’s owners, staff and volunteers have worked night and day to create something truly unique and very special for Cornwall. The result is an award-winning, top-rated visitor destination and major aerospace/STEM education centre with industry and education collaborations within and outside Cornwall.
Cornwall Council have terminated CAHC’s lease and given a deadline to vacate the site by 31/3/23.
With 20+ airframes of all sizes and thousands of exhibits, suitable alternative locations are few and need to be at or adjacent to Cornwall Airport and costs of relocation would cost hundreds of thousands.
Cornwall Council committed to assist CAHC to relocate their operation but have since refused to make good on these commitments. For more than 10 months the Council have refused to even discuss relocation proposals and funding sources.
With no options for relocation and with Cornwall Council refusing to help, the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre, the only aerospace museum in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset will have to close forever.
All of this amazing amenity and opportunity will be lost. Jobs will be destroyed. Valuable and historic aircraft of all sizes will have to be scrapped because of the prohibitive cost of road transport. The opportunity to inspire and educate Cornwall’s future generations will be lost. 60 dedicated veteran and retired volunteers will lose a vital part of their lives.
Cornwall Council should be welcoming this unparalleled opportunity for Cornwall and, as a crucial part of the Levelling Up agenda, the Council should be encouraging and nurturing the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre in its bid to provide the County with a National quality aerospace destination and centre for learning – at no cost to the County. Instead Cornwall Council is destroying it.Thank you for taking the time to read this news. We are all devastated, but we will still work to find a solution or, if not successful, to find ways to preserve the aircraft and exhibits.
The Directors and Management of CAHC
PETITION HERE: https://www.change.org/p/save-cornwall- … age-centre
By: dhfan - 4th September 2022 at 21:11
Why? Does she absorb electricity or something similar?
By: avion ancien - 4th September 2022 at 20:06
….. and add Truss into the equation!
By: dhfan - 4th September 2022 at 17:53
Because Macron’s cap means that the energy rises come out of general taxation.
Next…
Add to my post.
That was July. Hot wasn’t it?
The UK is a net importer of electricity and both Norway and France have told us that they can’t supply our winter requirements.
As I recall, Norway because of a shortage of water for hydro-electricity and France due to long-term maintenance on a considerable number of their nuclear power stations.
I don’t remember whether we can have none or some, but either way there will be a shortfall.
By: 1batfastard - 4th September 2022 at 15:39
Hi All,
dhfan – https://www.statista.com/statistics/323379/electricity-export-volumes-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
From July 14th in the Financial times https://www.ft.com/content/517f2786-2acf-4d28-9dc7-fc5db835479e
If the article is true then why are we facing these massive energy rises ?? again when you consider what Macron has told EDF to cap it’s prices why cannot the UK do exactly the same and make them stick to it.
Am I wrong in thinking these companies are just thinking of their share holders rather than the customers ?
I new that the UK had been exporting Liquid Gas and had heard recently on a video about exporting electricity. I agree with your zealots labelling, as with the idiots blocking Roads and gluing they’re hands to whatever they fancy just bullying there way for whatever cause they think of next.
Geoff.
By: dhfan - 4th September 2022 at 00:00
You’re wrong.
We buy electricity from France and Norway because the green zealots said wind and solar could make up for closing the coal and gas fired power stations.
They were wrong too.
By: 1batfastard - 3rd September 2022 at 23:53
Hi All,
Signed the petition, I noted this article which shows the hypocrisy of councils and their spending habits while claiming they need extra income etc. etc. etc.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-council-paying-1000-day-7526831
How can they justify spending a £1000 a day for a stand in member of staff from an agency yet are prepared to evict out a museum that is paying rent ? If push comes to shove well then why not ask Charlie boy for a hand after all the Museum falls well within the boundaries of his Duchy.
I am certain that we can all find similar stories about your local shires/council wasteful spending habits. My own example is the local council opening up a new community centre/hall while banging on about being frugal and ( especially now with the electricity going through the roof exponantionally ) ever since it was completed the outside flood lights are left on from dusk till dawn 7 days a week and as the nights get longer I imagine the bill will get dearer and the tax payers will be forking out for it, Yet at the same time we are told that local council tax will go up.
IMPO I think we are all being taken for mugs, for one thing this government should grow a backbone and tell EDF we will pay up when the French do, Macron has capped they’re electricity why should we have to pay more especially when you think the UK ships out it’s over produced electricity (If I am wrong please put me right on the last bit!)
Geoff.
By: Shorty01 - 2nd September 2022 at 17:59
Signed and shared.
By: Archer - 2nd September 2022 at 10:59
Thanks!
There’s more to the story of course. Cornwall council states that CAHC was aware that it was on a temporary lease that they have already extended. The real issue is that CAHC stepped in to save the airframes that were left behind when Classic Air Force left Newquay and they have developed this into an excellent museum that is of real value to the area and the tourism industry in Cornwall. All they need is a secure location, and this is what the council does not want to support, they just want to maximise the profit that can be squeezed from a bit of airport real estate.
Just my two cents…
By: trumper - 1st September 2022 at 15:18
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