6 November 2012
The Jet Age Museum at Gloucestershire Airport has been given permission to go ahead with the completion of the project after a final legal hurdle has been cleared.
Museum chairman, John Lewer, has confirmed the team now have the official green light. The agreement, now approved by Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council, means the airport land will be leased by the museum for the next 45 years. Phase one of the building work was put on hold when the process was delayed by paperwork.
Mr Lewer said, “We began our preliminary work on site but the legal paperwork took far longer and will now cost more than we had ever expected.” He added, “The delay left us in limbo but we do now have the official green light to finish our project.”
It is now hoped the shell of the building will be complete by the end of the year and the museum will open in 2013.
The museum’s collection includes a Gloster Javelin, Meteors and a replica Gloster E28/39.
Museum trustee and Head of Operations at the airport, Darren Lewington, said, “The museum build should continue now at pace. The thousands of people who turned out at Staverton a few weeks ago for the Vulcan flypast clearly indicates the local interest in historic aviation, which bodes well for the museum’s future.”
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