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The next protest event at Nottingham City Airport will be held on Sunday 16th March at 1100 outside the airfield.

Please come along and join the protest against Vistry and their spiteful plans to shut the airfield.

Today a group of supporters of Nottingham City Airport held a protest at the entrance to the site. The protest was well attended, drawing people from all walks of life, and with a variety of interests in the airfield.

The protest was covered by print and broadcast media and resulted in many favourable comments and posts on our public Facebook page. This is the first of many protests we shall be holding. Keep your eye on our News page for more details as they become available.

One of the undoubted highspots of the afternoon was a visit from an AAC Wildcat helicopter. Have a look at some of the videos of this machine’s arrival and departure on our Facebook page!

Today the property developer Vistry served three months notice on the occupiers of Nottingham City Airport.

While we are horrified at this pre-emptive action (folks, Vistry haven’t even applied for planning permission yet – they can’t, the local plan hasn’t even been approved yet!) we see this as the first shot in a battle that is only a part of the overall war.

We will be organising various functions at a number of locations to express our horror at this spiteful action which seems to be aimed at throwing more than 60 people out of work and closing down businesses, not to mention threatening the airfield as am operational location for the air ambulance.

Vistry have miscalculated the strength of feeling against this development, and have seriously misjudged the support for Nottingham City Airport.

Here’s a letter to one of our supporters from the Minister of Aviation’s office in the Department for Transport. The letter very clearly sets out government expectations that planning authorities will maintain and support our national General Aviation network of airfields.

We are pleased at the clear recognition, at the highest levels of government, of the value that General Aviation airfields bring at both a local and a national level.

With the weight of this letter, it is important to repeatedly ask District and County councillors why Nottingham City Airport why the airfield was included in the Local Plan for Rushcliffe without consideration or evaluation of the contribution it makes to the local and national economy?

The value of the airport, both now and in the future, clearly outweighs the false rationale some people have put forward to build unneeded houses on it.

Homes can be built in many places, airfields can not!

Local school children had a very exciting and inspiring experience at Nottingham City Airport this week!

They learned about all things #aviation and #art from Tatiana Shevchenko of Swords Aviation and a local artist, Tim O’Brien.

The younger generations need to learn that places like this provide skills, the knowledge, jobs and futures.

We must save this place, for them.

An eye-opening article appeared in the press last week. The article covers just some current and former RAF bases and (this is important) these environmental concerns are not time-limited.

This article is an important, and stark, reminder that the history of sites and their former uses must be considered and investigated in detail before former military bases are considered for housing.

Bearing in mind that RAF Duxford was decommissioned in 1961, researchers found in 2020 that it was causing the reported effects to Cambridgeshire’s water supply, likely due in part to the use of fire fighting foams containing these “forever chemicals”.

We will, of course, bring this potential issue to attention on the planning portals for both planning applications to build homes and schools on the airfield. We shall also be conducting our own investigations into the quality of the land which has already been built upon.

Public safety is of paramount importance.

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