CHQ Move Update
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The complex is split between 3 sites, and an absolute nightmare to keep secure. There is in fact a public footpath straight through the heart of the domestic site, that is regularly used by bemused ramblers, and is completely open from 2 sides. (This was before it was discovered that a Al Quaeeda cell was operating down the road!) The accomodation is deplorable considering most people are weekend warriors due to the excessive house prices, and it is on National Trust land, so cannot be expanded on, or altered significantly. Apart from that and the reasons stated earlier, it was the ideal location for a Joint HQ.
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Chaps,
All fair and reasonable points!
You are right about hot water being an essential, so I can't argue with that.
I'm not sure about the need for a bunker, other thain it providing office space (not my idea of fun tho', being stuck underground!)
I have got good news to report on the car parking - B Block has been knocked down and there is a load more car parking - hooray!
All fair and reasonable points!
You are right about hot water being an essential, so I can't argue with that.
I'm not sure about the need for a bunker, other thain it providing office space (not my idea of fun tho', being stuck underground!)
I have got good news to report on the car parking - B Block has been knocked down and there is a load more car parking - hooray!
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Zithro,
As has been said (but I'm going to say it anyway - that's what PPRuNe's about!), people don't mind moving and it is sensible to just have one HQ. However, a short delay in the move could sort all the accommodation issues and the plan is now to collocate and not combine, so it seems very poorly conceived.
But on the other hand, the current air officers get to look good for making the move happen early, so I guess we should all be very grateful to them - w
ers.
As has been said (but I'm going to say it anyway - that's what PPRuNe's about!), people don't mind moving and it is sensible to just have one HQ. However, a short delay in the move could sort all the accommodation issues and the plan is now to collocate and not combine, so it seems very poorly conceived.
But on the other hand, the current air officers get to look good for making the move happen early, so I guess we should all be very grateful to them - w
ers.
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Mead Pusher,
I wonder how long a 'short delay' would be until all the accommodation issues are sorted?
Office space at HW is being sorted now - I sit in a pretty good office and am moving somewhere else shortly, but I'm sure it will be equally as acceptable. As for living accommodation, across the RAF there are examples of good and bad accommodation. I'm not a works services person, but I can't imagine that any living accommodation is being upgraded until there is an absolute requirement for it to be done, and in HW's case that requirement has arrived.
I can't see realistically how delaying the project would have made it any better! When Support Cmd moved down from Brampton to Innsworth (that ages me!) some people got to live in the new OM, but plenty of others lived in what is now the Mess Annex, which was pretty poor as I remember. Nicholsons Drive hadn't been built at that ime, so the MQs were pretty hit or miss in the degrees of modernisation.
I can't help but think that moans about accommodation are red herrings - or rather outlets for a deeper dissatisfaction for having to move from Innsworth to HW. I have served at both HQs in the last 5 years and would really struggle to say that one was better than the other.
Happy to discuss
I wonder how long a 'short delay' would be until all the accommodation issues are sorted?
Office space at HW is being sorted now - I sit in a pretty good office and am moving somewhere else shortly, but I'm sure it will be equally as acceptable. As for living accommodation, across the RAF there are examples of good and bad accommodation. I'm not a works services person, but I can't imagine that any living accommodation is being upgraded until there is an absolute requirement for it to be done, and in HW's case that requirement has arrived.
I can't see realistically how delaying the project would have made it any better! When Support Cmd moved down from Brampton to Innsworth (that ages me!) some people got to live in the new OM, but plenty of others lived in what is now the Mess Annex, which was pretty poor as I remember. Nicholsons Drive hadn't been built at that ime, so the MQs were pretty hit or miss in the degrees of modernisation.
I can't help but think that moans about accommodation are red herrings - or rather outlets for a deeper dissatisfaction for having to move from Innsworth to HW. I have served at both HQs in the last 5 years and would really struggle to say that one was better than the other.
Happy to discuss
