RP19. (REUSE OF) REDUNDANT MILITARY BASES
(updated: February 27, 2006 )

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* indicates more useful and/or up to date references
OFL = Ordered for library - please check University Library catalogue for latest availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/

Baker, Lee, 2000, 'Battle lines drawn over air base plan' (Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire), Planning 1395, 17.11.00.

Barraclough, David, 2000, 'Defence estate strategy strikes a fair balance' (on the Defence Estates Agency consultion draft 'Strategy for the Defence Estate'), Planning 1373, 16.6.00.

Bateman, M & Riley, R (eds), 1987, 'The Geography of Defence', Croom Helm, London.

*Carter Jonas Consultancy, 2000, 'Reuse of Government owned sites in local plans in Southern England' (?exact title), Carter Jonas, Oxford, tel. (01865) 511444, March.

Clark, Celia, 2003, 'Are we wasting the 'peace dividend?', Town and Country Planning 72 (5), June, p150.

Command Papers (HM Government), available from The Stationery Office (TSO) (was HMSO until 1997):
'Statement on the Non-statutory Inquiry by Baroness Sharp into the Continued Use of Dartmoor for Military Training', Cmnd. 6837, 1977.

Defence Estates Agency, 2000. 'Strategy for the Defence Estate' (consultation draft).

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
(June 1997 - June 2001; replaced by the DTLR)
(DETR, Ministry of Defence & Government Offices), 'Guidelines for the Joint Working of Ministry of Defence and Government Regional Offices on the Disposal of Surplus Ministry of Defence Property', DETR, December 1997.
'Development of Redundant Defence Estate', May 1999; ISBN 0 7277 28164, The Book Sales Department, Thomas Telford Ltd., 1 Heron Quay, London E14 4JD

Doak, Joe, 1999, 'Planning for the Reuse of Redundant Defence Estates: Disposal Processes, Policy Framewrosk and Development Impacts', Planning Practice and Research 14 (2), May, pp211-224.

Doxford, D & Hill, T, 1998, 'Land use for military training in the UK: the current situation, likely developments and possible alternatives', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 41, pp279-297.

English Heritage
'Historic Airfields Listings', December 2005, http://www.culture.gov.uk/global/press_notices/archive_2005/DCMS_171.htm

Finlayson, Colin, 1993, 'Cashing in on the peace dividend', Planning Week 1 (5), 7.10.93.

Ford, Andrew, 1996, 'Defence estate aims to beat an orderly retreat' (redundant military bases), Planning no. 1163, 5.4.96.

Fuller Peiser & Reading University, 1999, 'Development of the Redundant Defence Estate', report for the (former) Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions (DETR), Thomas Telford, London.

Fyson, Anthony, 1994, 'Peace Games' (Ministry of Defence land disposal), Public Service and Local Government, September.
Fyson, Anthony, 1999, 'Iron out defence land policy to get the full benefits', Planning 1329, 30.7.99, p13.

Gallent, Nick, et al., 1999, 'Local planners caught in dogfight over airfield use' (planning's treatment of airfield uses), Planning 1324, 25.6.99
Gallent, Nick, et al., 1999, 'More happy landings?' (survey of local planning practice on the use and reuse of small airfields), Town and Country Planning 68 (7), July .
Gallent, Nick; Howe, Joe & Bell, Philip, 1999, 'The Regulation of Land Reuse and Aviation on Airfields in Rural England and Wales', Planning Practice and Research 14 (4), November.
Gallent, Nick; Howe, J & Bell, P, 2000, 'New uses for England's old airfields', Area 32, pp383-394

Griffiths, Ben, 1997, 'Coming into land at the home base', Planning Week 5 (6), 13.2.97.

Gummer, John, 1989, 'Never say no to new ideas' (Bentwater, Suffolk base), Planning 1332, 20.8.99.

Gwilliam, Mike, 1995, 'Partnership pays dividends at bases' (future of RAF Chicksands, Beds), Planning 1139, 6.11.95.

House of Commons Defence Lands Committee, 1973, 'Report of the Defence Lands Committee' (The Nugent Report), HMSO, London.

House of Commons Defence Committee, 1994, 'The Defence Estate: Vol. 1 - The Main Report and Vol. 2 - Minutes of Evidence and Memoranda', HC Defence Committee, 1st Report, Session 1994-95, HC67, HMSO, London.

House of Commons Public Accounts Committee
'Control and Management of the Defence Estate: Ministry of Defence Propertyy Service Agency', HMSO, London, 1987.
'Ministry of Defence: Managing the Reductions in the Number of Vacant Family Quarters', TSO, London, tel. (0870) 500 6622, July 2001.

Howe, Joe et al., 1998, 'Happy Landings' (Warks), Town and Country Planning 67 (1), January-February.

Keeping, M, 1995, 'How to dispose of a problem site - conferring allowed', Town and Country Planning May, pp148-149.

Le-Las, Wendy, 2001, 'The Efficacy of the Planning System in Remediating Radioactively Contaminated Ministry of Defence Land', Journal of Planning and Environment Law, April.

*Ministry of Defence, 2000, 'In Trust and on Trust; The Strategy for the Defence Estate', TSO, London.

National Audit Office, 1992, 'Ministry of Defence: Management and Control of Army Training Land', HMSO, London.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
- website: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/
(in May 2002 took over responsibilities for planning from the
Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002);
'ODPM Circular 1/2003: Safeguarding Aerodromes, Technical Sites and Military Explosives Storage Areas: The Town and Country Planning (Safeguarded Aerodromes, Technical Sites and Military Explosives Storage Areas) Direction 2002', http://www.planning.odpm.gov.uk/circulars/01_03/index.htm

Pattinson, Marc & Stafford, Jenny, 1998, 'Disposals Programme marches on', Town and Country Planning 67 (1), January-February.

Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC), London,
tel. (020) 7944 6260/6254:
*'RWMAC's advice to ministers on The Ministry of Defence's arrangements for dealing with radioactive contaminated land', RWMAC, London, tel. (020) 7944 6260/6254, August 2000.

Rural Development Commission (former), 1996, 'The Impact of the Peace Dividend on Rural England', Economists Advisory Group Ltd., with ECOTEC Reclamation and Consulting Ltd, London..

Van Driesche, Jason & Lane, Marcus, 2002, 'Conservation through Conversation: Collaborative Planning for Reuse of a Former Military Property in Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA', Planning Theory and Practice 3 (2), August, p133,
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=2YKVT0Y3HNLWLQLQ

Wills, Sarah, 1995, 'The Redevelopment of Redundant RAF bases,' Working Paper 157, Oxford Working Papers in Planning Education and Research, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.

Wiltshire County Council, 1994, 'Network Demilitarised and the Conversion of military sites', Wiltshire County Council, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

Winkley, Rob, 2003, 'Battle rages over fate of Cold War Monument', Planning 1531, 8.8.03, p9

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