§ 95. Mr. O. Pooleasked the First Lord of the Admiralty on what date his Department were approached on the question of ploughing up the unused land at Peplow R.A.F. station, Shropshire; and what decision has been given.
Mr. DuģdaleThe airfield at Peplow is on loan to the Royal Navy from the Royal Air Force. I am not aware of any initial approach to the Admiralty in respect of this airfield, but it is Admiralty policy to bring the maximum amount of land on Naval Air Stations into agricultural use in association with the local war agricultural executive committees, and general instructions to this effect, calling for details of proposed acreage, were issued in February. Authority was given with the consent of the Air Ministry to plough up some 30 acres at Peplow towards the end of March.