At a meeting held by the committee yesterday it was decided to seek to enforce the operator to provide the Council with information relating to the level of activity at the airfield. Legal precedent allows that intensification of use can, but not necessarily always does, represent a material change of use. The information on numbers of flights is being sought in order to investigate local resident's claims that such a change has occurred at Wellesbourne.

Although the Council denies any hidden agenda to stop flying activity at the airfield, the fear is that this is indeed the first step in a campaign to close, or at least impose restrictions on, the airfield.