ITS future has been uncertain for nearly 50 years but campaigners are again working to preserve at least part of the site. Bushfield Camp and the adjacent Bushfield Down has been disused since the mid-1970s when the Ministry of Defence pulled out. Since then there have been several attempts to secure the long-term future of the downland area between the camp and Whiteshute Ridge. A bid for Millennium funding for a country park was unsuccessful as was a later attempt to have it declared a ‘village green’. Now Bo Priestley is campaigning for the downland to be saved from any form of development. The camp area, off Badger Farm Road, is earmarked in the local plan as a potential business park.