A collaboration of general aviation organisations
The GAAC offers confidential advice and support to General Aviation Aerodromes throughout the UK facing planning or property related issues. We focus on specific cases, but also liaise with Government and Parliament offering Guidance Notes and suggesting policy changes to address the most widely experienced problems. We aim to ensure that a collective voice is heard by government bodies and other stakeholders in the field of planning matters. We're able to do this thanks to the support of a number of Aviation Organisations, sharing the same commitment to help save and enhance the UK's irreplaceable network of GA Aerodromes.
The GAAC also regularly meets with Government and works closely with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Aviation and in particular the APPG’s Airfields Working Group.
The GAAC’s mission is to defend airfields where threatened by Planning and Property issues.
Ultimately the GAAC would like to see legislation enacted to better protect airfields as key infrastructure and, if possible, to create a Strategic Airfields Network (SAN) protected in law. Until that time, our outreach to Government, allied to submissions to Local Planning Authorities, principally work on a case-by-base basis. The GAAC responds to Government Consultations, most recently in relation to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
