west drayton
 

Hi All

Quick question - is west drayton still around, is it used for any operations at all now, and if not is the actual building still there?

UAV

No........

Blocks of flats going up I expect. Shame, it would probably have made a good prison (which it was in a previos life IIRC)

Still around and being used as a film location set.

BD

Just about sums it up - Stalag Drayton; I first read stinking nuclear bunker rooms - that'll be the ATCA dormitory then.
The 1950's period control room which was built in the 1960s but was already out of date

WD base was earmarked for total re-development - some luxury apartments (shame about the surroundings) have been built, but then the market dropped.

Further plans put on hold until the recession ends - as BDiONU states it is now used as a film location ('spooks' and some upcoming films have used it recently). Also believe it may be used on and off by the Police.

Still prime location real estate, but until market confidence returns, doubt if building will re-commence.

Jobs as tower guards/snipers to keep local riff raff away from luxury apartments to be advertised when development re-commences :p

WD is still there in all its glory. Except for all the trees which were cut down within hours of site handover. Also the MT hanger, NAFI Stores (Centre Place) and USAF quaters all gone. I will be interested to see how long it takes developers to remove L1 - it has blast proof walls - it took several days just to knock windows and doors into them.

Just bought a load of shares in this company....maybe at last my old place of work will make me some money!! A bargain at 16p multibagger once the planning permission granted :-)

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Nearly shed a tear at those photographs, then I had a word with myself! If you really wanted to see a prison then the old Officer's Mess was the place to go.

I'm a great one for nostalgia, being a member of the MPN-11 GCA and R3 @ RAF Sopley generation, but WD as a pile of rubble would make a marvellous monument to all architects who never have to live/work in the cr@p they design/build. Widger has it on the nail :ok:

I thank my good fortune I only had to work there for less than 2 years.

The plan for the West Drayton site:

DRAYTON GARDEN VILLAGE

It seems that they wanted to start knocking the main buildings down in mid 2009 according to the documents on Hillingdon Councils site but they haven't started yet.

The plan is to have the Garden Village finished by 2017, although I can't see that the demand is there for all of that in the area based on the number of flats that seem to be for sale next door!!