VICTORY!! CARDINGTON AIRFIELD IS OFFICIALLY SAFE FROM DEVELOPMENT!! THANK YOU TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO STOOD UP FOR THIS HISTORIC SITE BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY WON!!
November 21, 2012
Final supporters
NEW E-PETITION LAUNCHED HERE http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/39263 100,000 SIGNITURES TO RAISE THE MATTER AT PARLIAMENT.
Cardington Airfield is under threat of development.
The airship industry is growing, in this part of the world including Europe, areas suitable for constructing and flying large LTA vehicles is limited to 1 place, Cardington.
If this development is allowed to go ahead it will basically kill off an industry.
HAV (Hybrid Air Vehicles) and others need these buildings and airfield left intact to develop and fly airships, it is what these buildings and airfield were built for, if the plans go ahead it will mean that there will be no suitable facilities to construct large airships in the UK or Europe.
The site should be protected.
The issue is with airship production is you need a large building to construct service and maintain airships, you also need a large open field area to prepare them for flight and ground handling, this is why the airfield needs protecting, if it is built on it will end Cardington's long nearly 100 year association with airship development and excellence.
There is a lot of history associated with the sheds and the airfield at Cardington.
Save Cardington Airfield before its too late.
message Bedford Planning directly
The application numbers for the airfield
development are 11/02685/eia and 11/02686/eia Bedfords Planning department email is [email protected]
email them your concerns on this development as well as signing this petition. remember if they build on
the airfield cardington will be useless for airships. it will end...
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Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 17, 2012
Reached 100 supporters
September 10, 2012
17 Comments
I worked at Cardington Hangars in the early 2000's on the AT10 project. The wildlife that exists behind the hangars and across the airfield area is extensive. Hare, rabbit, dear, foxes, newt, toads, falcons nesting in the back of hangar 1, owls, sky larks etc. Development of the site would not only see the end of airship production and flying but the destruction of protected wildlife!!! Re think your plans please Bedfordshire council??
This internationally significant site should be protected, to remember the past and create a future industry
This is an Industry of the future, let us not allow the council to grant planning permission for the houses. A new industry without the damage to the local environment
there was no point in restoring shed No1 if it now means surrounding the shed with houses.
What on earth are developers doing to our landscape - this historical site is of national importance and to destroy it would be a mistake of epic proportion !!
This historic site must be saved
This site must be saved
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VICTORY!! CARDINGTON AIRFIELD IS OFFICIALLY SAFE FROM DEVELOPMENT!! THANK YOU TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO STOOD UP FOR THIS HISTORIC SITE BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY WON!!
November 21, 2012
Final supporters
NEW E-PETITION LAUNCHED HERE http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/39263 100,000 SIGNITURES TO RAISE THE MATTER AT PARLIAMENT.
Cardington Airfield is under threat of development.
The airship industry is growing, in this part of the world including Europe, areas suitable for constructing and flying large LTA vehicles is limited to 1 place, Cardington.
If this development is allowed to go ahead it will basically kill off an industry.
HAV (Hybrid Air Vehicles) and others need these buildings and airfield left intact to develop and fly airships, it is what these buildings and airfield were built for, if the plans go ahead it will mean that there will be no suitable facilities to construct large airships in the UK or Europe.
The site should be protected.
The issue is with airship production is you need a large building to construct service and maintain airships, you also need a large open field area to prepare them for flight and ground handling, this is why the airfield needs protecting, if it is built on it will end Cardington's long nearly 100 year association with airship development and excellence.
There is a lot of history associated with the sheds and the airfield at Cardington.
Save Cardington Airfield before its too late.
message Bedford Planning directly
The application numbers for the airfield
development are 11/02685/eia and 11/02686/eia Bedfords Planning department email is [email protected]
email them your concerns on this development as well as signing this petition. remember if they build on
the airfield cardington will be useless for airships. it will end...
JOIN THE FIGHT ON FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/377309445629319/
Keep up to date on Twitter with the lastest news on Cardingtons fight for survival here @cardingtonsheds
*** IMPORTANT: after signing up you are given the choice to donate to iPetition; this is purely optional (we are not requiring any funds at all, no money comes to us) -- your name will be added to the petition regardless of whether you donate. ***
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 17, 2012
Reached 100 supporters
September 10, 2012
17 Comments
Cardington must be saved, my grandfather trained there on Barrage Balloons in WWII, this site has unique and important historical significance!
I worked at Cardington Hangars in the early 2000's on the AT10 project. The wildlife that exists behind the hangars and across the airfield area is extensive. Hare, rabbit, dear, foxes, newt, toads, falcons nesting in the back of hangar 1, owls, sky larks etc. Development of the site would not only see the end of airship production and flying but the destruction of protected wildlife!!! Re think your plans please Bedfordshire council??
This internationally significant site should be protected, to remember the past and create a future industry
This is an Industry of the future, let us not allow the council to grant planning permission for the houses. A new industry without the damage to the local environment
there was no point in restoring shed No1 if it now means surrounding the shed with houses.
What on earth are developers doing to our landscape - this historical site is of national importance and to destroy it would be a mistake of epic proportion !!
This historic site must be saved
This site must be saved
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Cardington must be saved, my grandfather trained there on Barrage Balloons in WWII, this site has unique and important historical significance!