1800 Houses planning go ahead at Dunsfold

[chalkyboy]

This week has seen the permission for 1800 houses to be built here. All South side of the runway.

[rockwell]

It would appear that the 2017 Wings and Wheels will still go ahead.

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[keefyboy]

Sad news indeed - there's a bit of a debate about this on the UKAR forum. I read somewhere - maybe UKAR or FC that both Fairoaks and Redhill might go the same way - ie housing. Evidently if all this happens it will leave Surrey without a proper airfield. My local Kemble always seems to be under threat but county councils seem to be at loggerheads on this one. Hullavington will be housing and Wellsbourne may well go the same way. Where will owners park their aircraft?

[chalkyboy]

Latest estimates are 2-3 years before anything starts .. Heathrow could be underway first..

[chalkyboy]

April 21st... Today i have an email to report that Trinity College Cambridge are selling up. This means the houses planned to be built will almost certainly not now go ahead. Why buy 2 x Boeing 747 on a housing estate? Filming would seem to be the way forward here and we could end up as another Leavesden hopefully leaving an active runway..?

[chalkyboy]

So today as quoted in 'THE TIMES' Dunsfold Airfield/Park has been sold to an American investment company.. COLUMBIA INVESTMENTS..
The price is 200 million rising to possibly as much as 250 million pounds. The local residents did not want houses and when the owners tried for an airfield the residents fought even more. Now it looks like a lot more than the intended 1800 houses will be built.

[michael]

Well serves the locals right ....they didn't want the the airfield,nor the houses (fair enough),but not the arfield upgraded ...so you get your right deserve

[Deleted]

Our firm were going to move to another location, as the factory which has been in the road longer than a lot of the residencies= the latter who moan and groan all the time re lorries and vans coming into the yard. The management put it up for sale for house's to be built- the neighbors did not like it and objected to the plans so we are staying.

Obviously the residents near Dunsfold could not make up there minds what they want- well they won't be happy now

Happy Days

Bob

[graham]

I wonder how much influence the locals might have had anyway, regardless of what they wanted? On a far smaller scale, about 15 years ago, what was local authority waste land to the rear of our house and four others of our neighbours, plus eight houses on the next street across from ours was listed for redevelopment.

The council wanted the residents' opinions as to how they would like to see the land used. There were essentially three options, 1) build a play area, 2) build some affordable housing for locals and 3)a combination of both.

I know for a fact that the residents voted for the housing but we ended up with a play area, option 1. Since it was completed, we have had older kids shouting and screaming out there until dusk and beyond, we get all types of rubbish thrown over our back garden fence, empty bottles, drinks cans, snack wrappings, etc. Footballs fly over the fence and smash the glass on our greenhouse, we have kids banging on the front door most evenings wanting their football back, and seeing as most can't be arsed to walk round to our front door, they have broken our fencing on numerous occasions to retrieve their footballs. I even caught one little bastard having a pee up behind our shed and when I told him to get out, all I got was a mouthful of abuse.

It's the same for all the neighbours concerned, we have jointly written to the council several times but nothing is ever done about it.