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Urgent!!!!
Save Cardington Airfield
This
was an area where so many Barrage Balloon Operators and so much development and
experiment with Barrage Balloons took place.
The
site is of great historical significance to those who served in Balloon Command
and to the families of these men and women.
There
are plans to build on the airfield there which would eliminate any use of the
ground for the landing and taking off of airships in the future.
This housing is not needed, there are hundreds of acres of land with outline planning for housing in this country where no building work is taking
place
because there is no market for houses.
House
buying has never been so low in numbers.
If this planning application is approved then we will never see the fantastic sight of an airship landing at Bedford and the fields on which so many
people
trained for during WWII and before will be lost forever under concrete and
asphalt.
Our heritage will be lost forever and Cardington airfield will go the way of many of the former RAF stations that now lie under thousands of homes
and
roads in the
Email
your objections to this application at:
planning@bedford.gov.uk
You
must give your house address when raising objections to the planning committee.
This is a standard requirement.
Update :The HMG
e-petition has been accepted, if you are a UK resident and are concerned about
the proposed housing development at Cardington please sign to get the matter
brought up at parliament. please forward on to any interested parties.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/39263
The more protest you make the less likely are we to lose Cardington Airfield.