Thought I would inform everyone that the officer’s mess at Driffield is to be demolished in the next few weeks. Because the building is unsafe they don’t need planning permission. And why is the building unsafe? Because it has been vandalised. And why has it been vandalised? Because there was no on-site security to prevent local idiots from trashing the place. This while I know of two developers who would have liked to refurbish the building. I feel ****…
By: Blue_2 - 27th January 2011 at 13:49
When I was a wee Air Cadet we used to go to RAF Driffield for sports and for night-ex’s on the airfield against Beverley and Driff squadrons 🙁
By: Bograt - 27th January 2011 at 12:46
It’s not the only Officer’s mess that’s falling to bits; I can think of one that’s very close 😡
Rotten shame though, I lived at RAF Driffield for a time in 1973 and used to walk the pooch all around the site on Saturday afternoons. We would wander around the control tower, the bombed hangar and you could even get inside the gunnery training dome.
By: Blue_2 - 27th January 2011 at 09:17
Living fairly nearby I drive past RAF Driffield fairly often, and it always saddens me to see this piece of history dying a slow lingering death 🙁
By: Phantom Phil - 27th January 2011 at 07:33
It angers me this happens just for profit with no regard to our heritage! Any way of getting some lintals and re-installing? How about grade listing? 😉
By: Phillip Rhodes - 26th January 2011 at 23:15
Is there no way of stopping this?? Maybe a voluteer group to restore the building??
I’ve fired off a new emails, but they have already removed the roof tiles. I’m hoping that they might postpone the demolition for a few months. The problem is that the building is in the way of profit profit profit. Yet I know of a couple of developers who would have used this building and that is still the case. They believe that the building would have had to be gutted, but they would have retained the interior and exterior character.
It’s not a restoration job for enthusiasts and it would cost around £500k just to gut the building, restore the exterior fabric (walls and roof) and install concrete interior walls and foundations – thus creating a blank canvas. I would retain as much of the interior fixtures and fittings. And no one had that kind of money this side of a recovery. I will be writing off to the directors of Strawsons, but they are deaf to everyone other than their accountants.
Worse day of my life!
By: Phantom Phil - 26th January 2011 at 22:28
Is there no way of stopping this?? Maybe a voluteer group to restore the building??
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