Baginton- good news for the aviation community...

[dave]

COVENTRY AIRPORT NEWS:

Plans for a new gigafactory at Coventry airport have been disrupted due to potential unexploded Second World War bombs. RAF Baginton was heavily bombed by the Luftwafe during the war, giving rise to the potential for unexplored bombs. Controversial proposals would see a gigafactory which would build batteries for electric cars at the Baginton site. The unexpected stumbling block, according to Coventry City Council's planning portal, has now revealed the need for a risk assessment due to the possibility building work could see people killed if an unexploded bomb goes off.

regards,
                   dave...

[graham]

Thanks Dave, rather different but in a way similar, years ago when I lived down in Cornwall, a supermarket chain acquired a large plot of wasteland between Redruth and Camborne upon which they intended to build a very large store. Unbelievably, given the myriad of old mine workings in the area, they purchased the site without having done geological surveys and it was only when the excavators moved in that the problem was discovered as old mine shafts opened up.

The supermarket company ended up paying a king's ransom to have thousands of cubic yards of concrete poured into these old shafts to stabilise them and make the site safe to build on.

[dave]

hi,
the same happened to "my greatest football team in the world Port Vale" they were doing ground improvements and being in N.Staffs there were old mine shafts, Now if we were in Germany and wanted to build anything, they apply to Keele university has they hold all bombing photo's from ww2 on digital film, so they can check, only they don't always bother.
regards,
dave...