Local Planning on Rural Airfields, 1998

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The project was conducted in four phases. The aims and objectives of each phase were as follows :<br>
Phase 1 : Background :<br>
to locate airfield development and aviation issues within a broader understanding of planning and development concerns;<br>
to explore historical patterns of airfield development/abandonment as a precursor to considering contemporary re-use patterns and issues;<br>
to highlight the national and regional frameworks governing airfield re-use as a precursor to focusing on local planning concerns;<br>
to explore existing datasets in order to construct a picture of the geographical distribution of airfields.<br>
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Phase 2 : Local Planning :<br>
to consider the pressures facing airfields as potential centres of development opportunity. This was to be achieved via a review of the extent and nature of airfield re-use, and an assessment of the number of sites where new uses and flying co-exist;<br>
to examine how planning - within local frameworks - regulates new development pressures and flying activity on rural airfields; this was to be achieved via an assessment of local planning practice (relating to new uses) on airfields, and a review of local planning's treatment of aviation and an assessment of the role that land-use planning plays in relation to local flying;<br>
to assess the compatibility of new land uses on airfields with established flying activity.<br>
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Phase 3 : Community and Wider Concerns :<br>
To consider wider community-based concerns, via : contact with national agencies with experience in dealing with airfield issues, and local case studies, involving semi-structured interviews with local groups.<br>
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Phase 4 : Synthesis and Dissemination :<br>
to bring together the various findings within a coherent structure.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The questionnaire focused on : respondents' personal details; airfields in district; regulation of flying activity; other activities/land-uses on the district's airfields and their regulation; planning applications, approvals and dismissals; impacts (of new land uses and compatibility with flying) - real and perceived; other information (for case study selection).<br>
The dataset comprises 151 cases (rows) and 195 data variables (columns). The rows correspond directly with planning authority (LPA) cases whilst the columns represent coded responses to closed-ended questions or re-coded responses to open-ended responses.