It appears that the government have decided to list several Battle of Britain and other historical sites around the UK.
Sites included are Duxford, Debden, Scampton and the bunker at Uxbridge.
It’s a shame this didn’t happen before the army knocked down the last remaining hangar at Debden.
More information can be found here at the BBC
By: mike currill - 2nd December 2005 at 17:00
The hangers at Cardington are listed buildings so they cant be touched. Shame about the rest of the site though.
Don’t you believe it. If you or I own a listed building there a numerous restrictions as to what we’re allowed to do with it but if the government owns a listed building they seem to be able to knock them down or modify them as they see fit. I know of a couple of listed buildings that were owned by local government which have been knocked down in the last few years.
By: adrian_gray - 2nd December 2005 at 15:28
Ah, now that I wasn’t aware of, the hedges do rather block the view. Glad to hear it. By the way, if you read this before I edited it last, I was shouting at myself, not anyone else.
Lets hope somebody does something similar with the other side.
ADrian
By: Arm Waver - 2nd December 2005 at 15:03
No they don’t Adrian.
The Other side of the road (formerly DCTA now DLO Caversfield) they had to restor the site and not lose the history. Even the trees are catalogued!
By: adrian_gray - 2nd December 2005 at 14:55
Thank you, Arm and Ollie, for those points! Always good to know what is actually happeningg. Agreed about the rest of Cardington, and of course listing doesn’t seem to stop people letting places decay – the buildinbgs at Bicester visible from the A421 don’t look very loved, do they?
Adrian
By: Peter - 2nd December 2005 at 14:52
Scampton…… Yay!
By: Arm Waver - 2nd December 2005 at 14:50
I think the buildings at Bicester are already listed Grade II.
By: ollieholmes - 2nd December 2005 at 14:43
The hangers at Cardington are listed buildings so they cant be touched. Shame about the rest of the site though.
By: adrian_gray - 2nd December 2005 at 13:46
And no sign of Bicester, or the airship hangars at Cardington….
Adrian
(got my Dad’s goat, when he was a local builder, that with all those squaddies at Debden HE ended up on the hangar roof cleaning out the gutters!)
By: Firebird - 2nd December 2005 at 13:46
Debden..????
I used to go to Debden at lot when it was used for motorsports, can’t say I was too impresssed about what it had become with the mods to the base, seems a strange decision that one.
The north side of RAF Northolt would have been just as appropiate.
What about Bentley Priory?
A pity that this didn’t happen 20 years ago and maybe Hawkinge would have been saved, which would have been far more appropriate IMHO.
By: T6flyer - 2nd December 2005 at 13:33
Bet North Weald is not on the list, as they (the Government) and the local council still seem hell bent on building houses on the airfield site.
Martin
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