New uses for England's old airfields

Summary This article examines the process of airfield re‐use across rural England, highlighting the framework and realities of procedural planning control. In doing so, it illustrates how the re‐use of. airfield sites in the countryside raises issues of more general concern and mirrors wider debates within the sphere of development planning. In short, we are concerned with both opportunities for land re‐cycling on rural airfields and the debates which are likely to emerge as additional sites are re‐developed.