What would you build on our piece of land to stop the third runway?
Lordy. When we launched the Airplot fortress competition a few weeks ago, I don't think we were prepared for the sheer range of ideas we'd receive. We've had plenty of suggestions for forts of some kind, while others have trod an underground pathway with tunnels and bunkers, and others have gone fully 'outside the box', proposing bold and outlandish new design concepts.
While I'd like to share some of them in detail, that wouldn't be fair on people who've already entered. But here are a few pointers. Reshaping the land to make it harder for the bulldozers to move in has been popular, as has placing something there which would be difficult to remove. I can see where one person was going when the suggested using nuclear waste as a deterent, but I reckon the Sipson residents may have some objections to that.
There'll still be more ideas out there. The competition is open until Friday 23 April, so there's still plenty of time to get your entry in for a chance to win a trip to the exhibition we're going to hold in London.
And for the architects out there, our other competition for fully realised plans runs until the same date. There's one more site visit available in March, and all the resources you'll need are available online.
