It was a myth I was told by the OM staff whilst looking through the door into the OM bar store and wondering (over a beer or three) just how much it would cost to repair the gold leafed plasterwork in the store.

Chivenor. Sold off
 

The duo page has been taken down as their was errors in it do they been rmb storehouse not rmb Chivenor I wonder

Er...................What?

Chivenor
 

Just spoken to my contacts in local press paper tv . They heard about this yesterday and been looking into this and were told this morning by dio that some info has been put up in error.and will be corrected. But could not confirm or denied anything about any base closers or sell offs. What's going on. Sounds like a mess up wait and see

Yup, the document contained elements of total folly from DIO - what else would you expect? :ugh:

The sooner we bin this ubersized and under achieving abomination the better. Bring back OC SSSs, give the Head of Establishment (for the RAF Stn Cdr) the budget and let them run a local plan according to strategic guidance. Plus whilst we're at it allow the Stn to employ local contractors rather than an over-charging behemoth like Carillion-Amey which makes a mockery of competition rules that any other MoD contract normally has to be run against.

The whole thing is a frikkin' joke and seeing as it is "scribbly heavy" is it really any surprise...? :}

The B Word (in the grumpy corner)

Well make your mind up "Bring back OC SSS" and "scribbly heavy" seem comments at odds with each other

Wander00

Who says OC SSS has to be a scribbly - would an Eng (CIS or AV) or Stacker be better suited to such a role? In the Army normally QMs looked after the estate and a bloody good job they did as well!

The B Word

Scribblies seem to have made, in my time any way, quite effective OCs SSS, for which they get (or got) the training, but would be happy in principle for anyone else to look after bogs and drains.........


Have to declare an interest as first OC SSS at the then MPA

Halton.
 

A small spanner regarding Halton. The Old Workshops have been condemned with immediate effect. All users have until end of week to retrieve what they can.
Is there enough money to bring them back into use? Or will this hasten the closure?

Does that include clothing stores?

" The Old Workshops have been condemned with immediate effect. All users have until end of week to retrieve what they can.
Is there enough money to bring them back into use? Or will this hasten the closure"

They should have been condemned years ago....."how to demoralise new recruits without really trying " would be a fitting epitaph.

I will happily donate 10 litres of petrol to hasten a worthy cause . :E

What about Cranwell North Airfield? Lots of empty green space and then a remote patch of housing ideal for a sell off. There are unoccupied minor mansions as there are insufficient VSO either available or willing to pay the rent for these inefficient and unmodified houses.

If everything north of the messes was sold they could build a new patch nearer the site an free hectares of land for Sleafotd north.

I always found the Old Workshops at Halton to be a great place!:ok: Generally open plan, bright, airy and spacious. For a young engineer, it was great to wander around and look at the work of different sections, most of which had demo displays showing the work that they did.:D Now, that is not to say that they were perfect but, I enjoyed my time there and, I hope they can be retained in use!

OAP

And even more to go Defence review see 56 sites close - BBC News

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...tate_FINAL.pdf

Let's wait and see where this time.

Reports in the local paper (er sorry Cambridge News) that Henlow will migrate to Bassingbourn (currently under care and maint) by 2019

The Army abandoned Bassingbourn? Good grief! Was the area too posh for them? ;)

Had my first flight at Bassinbourn as a 13 year old CCF cadet - 9 years later was there as a student on 231 OCU

Bassingbourn
 

A fair number of units going into Bassingbourn, going to be busy in the future.

@Leon
Wow, it's a pretty well-entertained myth then. The local MP is demanding to know how the MoD will meet its obligations to the Rothschilds. Sounds like any future developer would be free to demolish the place and lay a car park over it.

In the bright new world of OJEU'd MFTS, other than the obvious reasons of wanting your future military pilots to have some experience of actually being in the military, what would prevent initial MFT being carried out at Civvy airfields - such as Cranfield?

Halton will close earlier than some on here predicted only a few weeks ago. For those without rose tinted glasses it couldn't survive because of Halton House.
The airfield is used by the RAF but the majority of users are civilians.
Although there are quite a few lodger units, these a generally small. The exception being the DMOC, or whatever it is called this week.

The estate itself will be worth a fortune. Prime real estate. Social housing on an industrial scale��

I am not sure how Cranwell will adapt but it will have to. I mentioned it before but initial training, 2-4 weeks, could be all ranks then diversifying. Studies are being done. It will change.

As I was told only the other day, the RAF is not for the old, it is for the future.