Homes plan for former airfield

Plans to build more than 1,000 houses on the site of a historic airfield have been given the green light.

Brockworth Airfield, on the outskirts of Gloucester, was home to the Gloster Aircraft Company, and home to Britain's first jet aircraft.

But now it looks set to be home to thousands of families, after Tewkesbury Borough Council agreed to allow 1,400 new houses on the site.

There are also plans to build a supermarket and leisure centre on the former airfield.

Building work could begin as early as next year.

Brockworth Airfield played an important part in the research, development and manufacture of aircraft from 1915 to 1964.

Britain's first jet aircraft, the Gloster E28/39 took off from the airfield on 8 April 1941.