NORTH Weald Bassett Parish Council has voiced no objection to plans to enable the National Police Air Service unit to relocate from High Beach to North Weald airfield.

A planning application has been submitted for a hangar, office, store and workshop together with a 50,000-litre bunded aircraft fuel tank and a 2,000-litre LPG tank for heating the accommodation unit.

The air unit – two helicopters and a fixed wing aircraft – has to move from its current base at Lippitts Hill by the end of March.

It is one of the NPAS bases serving London and the south east of England.