IN THE proposals and counter proposals for the increased burden of population Cotswold District is bring obliged by central government to take there exists another site that may have been overlooked.
South Cerney airfield does not seem to do much business these days so the level of activity needed by the RLC might be just as well handled at Cotswold Airport, leaving the 140 or so acres of the airfield at South Cerney available for housing, in addition to the already existing married quarters.
If it is possible to conceive of turning Cotswold Airport into a new town then it must surely be possible for the combination of the two activities at one site and the release of MoD land for a more necessary socio-political purpose.
At the same density being used for the North Hill development, the South Cerney site would take approximately 1,200 houses and would have the inestimable advantage of immediate access to the A419.
It would also relieve the authorities of having to build new roads, or significantly improve existing ones, to handle the traffic that would be consequent on the Kemble airfield or Chesterton proposal.
BRIAN GREEN
Cirencester
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