Expecting ‘joined up thinking’ from a government made up of lots of competing departments might just be a pipe dream, but turning RAF Scampton into a housing estate, or a migrant hostel is disrespectful to those who served this country. Such places are so very emotive. I walked around Thorpe Abbott and its excellent museum last Summer and found it so. The volunteers who maintain it and the villagers who hold their 1940’s themed fete were so very welcoming. Something similar at Scampton would be appropriate. I sincerely hope that those items removed from the base have been preserved.