Site Details
Address
Lasham Airfield, Avenue Road, Lasham, Alton, Hampshire

Grid Reference
467245 - 143213

Local authority
East Hants DC

Sport England region
South East

Competitions and events
The site has held international or national competitions or events and is sustainable because the location provides the support and facilities necessary for that level of competition.

• Open class nationals - July/August 2001 (other years to be added)
• Lasham regionals - July /August 2001 (other years to be added)

Training
The site has held national team or individual or group elite training for that sport or any of its disciplines, and is sustainable because the location provides the support and facilities necessary for that level of training.

• Major training centre - large field (280 acres) with hard runways and excellent support facilities

Scarcity
The site is important because of its scarcity or uniqueness value and because it cannot be re-created at a different location.

• Large site with year round operational capability cannot be easily replicated.

Heritage
A heritiage site is one which has been used continually or a for a long time by that sport and which cannot be recreated in a different location.

• Established 1958

Number of users
The site is important because of the numbers of people using it from any level of that sport

• Largest gliding club in UK (Lasham Gliding Society) - 486 members
• 24,750 launches (7% UK)
• 372,000 Km Cross-Country (23% UK) flown from site (in 2001?)
• Basic courses available each week.

Facilities strategy
The site has been identified as of international or national importance in that sport’s strategic planning documents.

• BGA Strategic Plan & BGA Sports Development Plan 2001 - 2006.

Physical characteristics
Identification of those characteristics, which if lost, would jeopardise the quality of the site.

• Site 50 miles from coast in excellent soaring area
• No serious restrictions due to controlled airspace (base of which is 4,850 ft above site).