WWW.SECRET-BASES.CO.UK NEWS EXCLUSIVEGCHQ's new research and development facility is refused planning permission! But O2 Airwave gets the go-ahead! Birdlip Radio Station, Shab Hill, Gloucestershire Planning documents for proposed major installation Submitted by GCHQ in January 2006 Planning documents for additional communications dishes Submitted by O2 Airwave in June 2006 Read the amazingly detailed documents forming the planning applications including correspondence, technical drawings, photos and diagrams Find out how GCHQ's upgrade to the Birdlip signals site would have looked with new tall communications lattice towers and a huge radome for the purposes of trialling new equipment and testing secret projects! Work out why GCHQ wanted to wire into the O2 Airwave system! Documents © COPYRIGHT Cotswold District Council First published April 2007 Page last updated/modified:  16th May 2008    COPYRIGHT © 2007 - 2008, Alan Turnbull   Pagliacci Productions Limited GCHQ Application Documents Dates Type       Application Form January 2006 PDF Correspondence " PDF Supporting Documentation " PDF Technical Drawings and Maps " PDF Photos – existing site " PDF Photos – proposed site " PDF Council rejection decision March 2006 DOC Appeal dismissal decision January 2007 PDF       GCHQ Application – Original Source           www.idox.cotswold.gov.uk/WAM/pas/ findCaseFile.do?appNumber=06/00001/CIRC January 2006 March 2006 January 2007 ALL DOCS       O2 Airwave Application Documents Dates Type       Application Form June 2006 PDF Correspondence " PDF Technical Drawings " PDF Application Form - amended July 2006 PDF Technical Drawings - amended " PDF Council approval decision August 2006 DOC       O2 Airwave Application – Original Source           www.idox.cotswold.gov.uk/WAM/pas/ findCaseFile.do?appNumber=06/01485/FUL June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 ALL DOCS       As featured in "Secret Britain" Eye Spy Magazine 49, July / August 2007 Click on the photo links below to enter Secret Bases and read more on GCHQ's and O2 Airwave's proposals for Birdlip Radio Station and the MI5 Streatham Garage developments in "Watching the Watchers" Plus full details on many more News Exclusives! 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