PNGC closes after discussions between the gliding centre and Fareham Borough Council failed to find a compromise.
The gliding centre has been based at Solent Airport Daedalus, formerly HMS Daedalus, for more than 60 years.
The PNGC website gives more insight into the reasons behind the closure.
No one has ‘won’ and for sure we have lost a great facility for anyone wanting to try gliding and for a centre which allows young people to develop aviation skills “in an affordable manner”
The gallery below shows some images of gliding activity which in all probability we will not see again
Lee-on-the-Solent gliding
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IFA2 Interconnexion France Angleterre
Comments about the IFA2 public exhibition at Stubbington Community Centre on Saturday 12th December 2015
- Your choice of cable route was governed by only being offered the site at Daedalus. If you had only been offered a site at Fawley then your cable route would obviously reflect this.
- Daedalus was the only site you were offered. ‘Identification’ didn’t come into it.
- All proposals will have an environmental impact. The impact of the building at Daedalus will be seen for miles around however much screening is applied.
- Do not build it at Daedalus. Fawley is the obvious site.
- Proposed site close to the threshold of a runway? Madness
- No illustration showing the size of the proposed building against the landscape.
- Please explain the technical reasons for not utilising the site of the Fawley power station
- It is out of keeping with the vision for Daedalus which is to promote advanced manufacturing and technology industry focused on marine, aviation and aerospace. The claim from Sean Woodward that ‘the lights will go out in 2020’ and the press release from Fareham Borough Council ‘Press Release – Electricity link with France proposed for Fareham to keep the lights on in 2020’ were scaremongering and bully tactics
Executive Leader of Fareham Borough Council, Councillor Seán Woodward, said: “National Grid has told us that the Fareham coastline is for technical and economic reasons the most appropriate location for the electricity interconnector to link into the UK network. NOT TRUE, THIS WAS THE ONLY SITE THE NATIONAL GRID WERE OFFERED
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Photographs by Barrie Webb
