Current Use
Today the site is a private industrial estate and the buildings are being converted into offices and storage space. The old control tower still stands and is being renovated into offices; the grass airfield has reverted to agriculture. Nottinghamshire Police use parts of the site for public order, method of entry and police dog training.
Just outside the main gate, the old NAAFI building is currently the home to 1936 (Newton) Squadron of the Air Training Corps, a continuing RAF presence on the site.
The abandoned houses on the base were used to film scenes from the film This is England. It has also been used for the television series Robot Wars after it transferred to the commercial UK channel Five.
The site is located within Nottingham's Green Belt (UK).
Proposals for building a large number of homes on-site are well developed.
Read more about this topic: RAF Newton
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