As predicted
This was more or less what I was saying a few months back.
ACW343
An interesting point of view however you have to trust a contractor to a point and the lost paperwork is something that you would expect not to happen in this industry, it is clear that the RAF/MoD took their eye of the ball but the level of failure to do the job when not being looked at is stunning.
FREDA
As you point out planning permission is needed for the hangar in question and this will take time but once it is granted this sort of construction takes only a few weeks and would fit in with the ramping up of glider recovery rate following the change of VGS support contractor.
ARCLITE01
The hangars at Syerston had been built for the maintenance of gliders but the contractor occupying them has proved to not have the skills to carry out the task so following this failure the MoD has had to look for those with the skills to do the work, clearly you can't move a small but highly skilled workforce from one end of the country to the other without considerable expense and the loss of skilled workers who don't want to commute such distances.
The solution to the problem is to put the aircraft in a trailer and move it to the workforce after all gliders are designed to be de-rigged with the minimum of fuss.