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6 MAR 07: REDHILL HOUSING PLAN AXED?

REDHILL Aerodrome Has avoided the possibility of being redeveloped as a 2000 home new village.

The airfield owners, Redhill Aerodrome Ventures Ltd (RAVL), originally had plans to either keep the land as an aerodrome or build a large housing settlement. But housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper MP has written to Reigate MP Crispin Blunt confirming there is no change to planning policy status of the airfield. The final decision on whether to allow development rests with Reigate and Banstead Borough and Tandridge District councils. Both have already said the airfield is on Green Belt and not for development. RAVL initially hoped new planning laws would allow the new village to go ahead.

RAVL’s planning consultant, Roger Shrimplin, told the Surrey Mirror, “Planning laws have changed, and are still changing. The Kate Barker report, commissioned by the Government, includes recommendations that more houses should be built, and there is a Government White Paper on planning issues to be published in the spring.”

But Yvette Cooper’s letter has shown the development decision rests with local authorities. RAVL is now left with its second option to improve the facilities for continued use as an aerodrome.

RAVL recently put on an exhibition showing the public plans to build a 900-metre hard runway, a new passenger terminal, refurbish hangars and buildings, and lay a hard-standing taxying apron.

W: www.redhillaerodrome.com

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6 MAR 07: REDHILL HOUSING PLAN AXED?