Coltishall may get preservation order

Some of the artwork on the inside of the hangar doors. Hopefully it will be preserved if planning authorities implement a conservation order. Image by Gary Parsons

27 July 2010

The former Royal Air Force station at Coltishall in Norfolk could be designated a conservation area.
 

July 27: Planning Resource magazine reports that the former Royal Air Force station at Coltishall in Norfolk could be designated a conservation area to “ensure that any future development does not harm its historic character”

RAF Coltishall was the only Battle of Britain airfield to have remained a front-line fighter station until its closure in 2006. Local planning authorities Broadland and North Norfolk District Councils say that the airfield has much historic interest ranging from the architecture to the “unique military graffiti in the hangars”, which date from the 1991 Gulf War.

Conservation status would manage any new development “to ensure that those qualities which warranted designation are sustained and reinforced, rather than eroded”. Some of the accommodation buildings have already been converted into detention centre for category C adult male sex offenders by the Prison Service and renamed HMP Bure.

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