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    English Heritage wants to preserve parts of the former RAF Upper Heyford air base as a Cold War heritage center to educate future generations about the struggle against Soviet communism. They believe the scale and functionality of the remaining structures could illustrate this history in a way text cannot. While recognizing full preservation may not be realistic, English Heritage proposes retaining the most significant sites and features, including keeping the runway area open and accessible without developers' planned planting schemes. The North Oxfordshire Consortium, which plans to redevelop part of the site for housing, agrees with English Heritage's proposals to retain original buildings where possible.

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    English Heritage wants to preserve parts of the former RAF Upper Heyford air base as a Cold War heritage center to educate future generations about the struggle against Soviet communism. They believe the scale and functionality of the remaining structures could illustrate this history in a way text cannot. While recognizing full preservation may not be realistic, English Heritage proposes retaining the most significant sites and features, including keeping the runway area open and accessible without developers' planned planting schemes. The North Oxfordshire Consortium, which plans to redevelop part of the site for housing, agrees with English Heritage's proposals to retain original buildings where possible.

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    English Heritage wants to preserve parts of the former RAF Upper Heyford air base as a Cold War heritage center to educate future generations about the struggle against Soviet communism. They believe the scale and functionality of the remaining structures could illustrate this history in a way text cannot. While recognizing full preservation may not be realistic, English Heritage proposes retaining the most significant sites and features, including keeping the runway area open and accessible without developers' planned planting schemes. The North Oxfordshire Consortium, which plans to redevelop part of the site for housing, agrees with English Heritage's proposals to retain original buildings where possible.

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    English Heritage wants to preserve parts of the former RAF Upper Heyford air base as a Cold War heritage center to educate future generations about the struggle against Soviet communism. They believe the scale and functionality of the remaining structures could illustrate this history in a way text cannot. While recognizing full preservation may not be realistic, English Heritage proposes retaining the most significant sites and features, including keeping the runway area open and accessible without developers' planned planting schemes. The North Oxfordshire Consortium, which plans to redevelop part of the site for housing, agrees with English Heritage's proposals to retain original buildings where possible.

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    Future of Historic Air Base

    Read the text and look at the questions that follow it. In this reading
    comprehension, the questions are multiple choice.

    RAF Upper Heyford - once the heart of allied defence against nuclear attack
    by the USSR - could become a Cold War 'museum'.
    Historians want parts of the base to be preserved as a heritage centre that
    could show future generations the struggle with Soviet communism 'in a way
    no document can'.
    Details of the latest recommendations for Heyford - now being called Heyford
    Park - have been put forward by English Heritage which has called for
    measures to prevent demolition of the 'irreplaceable' military remains.
    Current thinking comes from a detailed assessment of Cold War
    infrastructure across England by English Heritage experts. Keith Watson, the
    chief executive of the North Oxfordshire Consortium who is to develop part of
    the site for housing, said they were in full agreement with English Heritage's
    proposals.
    He said: "We are quite content with what English Heritage is proposing. It
    has always been part of our scheme to retain these structures in any event.
    "We are working with English Heritage to agree a consistent plan for the
    buildings."

    David Went, English Heritage inspector of ancient monuments, said many


    Upper Heyford features exemplify historical aspects of national importance
    about the Cold War.
    "The sheer scale and bare functionality of the structures on the base can
    illustrate for present and future generations, in a way no document can, the
    reality of the struggle with Soviet Communism," he said.
    "In our view much of this character would be lost by future ill-thought-out
    change and there stands an opportunity to ensure this does not happen.
    "We recognize that preservation of the whole base exactly as it stands today
    may not be a realistic option but a sustainable future could be found which
    balances the need for preservation against other needs."
    Mr. Went said the English Heritage view was that the future appearance of
    the base should include the most significant monuments and should:

    keep the open character of the runway area without planting schemes
    planned by developers

    keep a section of the main runway and the remainder as a grassed


    avenue

    provide all-weather access to the monuments, preferably by keeping


    existing base taxiways and perimeter tracks, for visitors or other
    practical use

    preserve the present landscape balance around the bomb bunkers and
    quick reaction area.

    The English Heritage study, submitted to the Planning Inspectorate in


    advance of the public inquiry into planning wrangles over the base which
    started at Bodicote House yesterday, has revealed that much of the Heyford
    landscape prior to becoming an airbase was open common or heathland - a
    feature Cherwell District Council planners would like re-established as a local
    country park.
    The council aims to defend the accepted 1,000-home plan which the North
    Oxfordshire Consortium of developers wishes to extend to over 5,000 homes.

    1. Why does English Heritage want to preserve the air base?


    They believe it is still of military importance.
    They think it can show young people something about history.
    There hasn't been proper planning by developers.
    2. What do the North Oxfordshire Consortium think?
    They want to build more houses than originally planned
    They say there is some possibility of keeping the base's original
    buildings.
    They want to call the base "Heyford Park".
    3. Which of these proposals does English Heritage oppose?
    Planting trees where the runway is currently.
    Making it easy for people to see the important military buildings.
    Not destroying all of the runway.
    4. Which would be the best sub-title to the article?
    Fight Against Communism Not Over Yet.
    Historians and Developers Clash Bitterly.
    Fight to Preserve Historical 'Document'.

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