Sabotage: 56 UK military barracks closures 'for housing'

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Full list of MOD site closures if anyone is interested. Some famous names on here. Some closures are still a few years away.

Royal Marines Condor Airfield, near Arbroath, Scotland
HMS Nelson Wardroom, Portsmouth
Royal Marines Stonehouse, Plymouth
The Royal Citadel, Plymouth
HMS Sultan, Gosport
Chivenor airfield and barracks, near Barnstaple, Devon
Norton Manor Camp, Somerset
Buckley Barracks, Wiltshire
Chalgrove airfield, Chalgrove, Oxford
Copthorne barracks, Shrewsbury
Somerset barracks, near Cheriton Kent
Abercorn barracks, Ballykinler in County Down, Northern Ireland
Craigiehall, Cramond, Scotland
Catterick town centre parcel, North Yorkshire
Harden Barracks (Duchess of Kent Psychiatric Hospital), Catterick, North Yorkshire
Burgoyne Barracks, Shepway, Kent
Claro Barracks, Ripon, North Yorkshire
Fitzwygram House (Royal Army Veterinary Corps Centre), Aldershot
Commander and staff trainer (North), Catterick, North Yorkshire
Cavalry barracks, Hounslow, London
Kneller Hall, Whitton, London
Parsons barracks, Donnington
Prince William of Gloucester barracks, near Grantham Lincolnshire
St George's barracks, North Luffenham, Rutland
Venning barracks, Donnington, Telford, Shropshire
Middlewick ranges, near Colchester
Chilwell station, Nottingham
Queen Elizabeth barracks, Strensall, North Yorkshire
Sir John Moore barracks, Winchester
Towthorpe Lines, Towthorpe, York
Thornhill barracks, Aldershot
Clive barracks, Ternhill, Shropshire
Fulwood barracks, Preston, Lancashire
Kinnegar logistic base, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
Meadowforth barracks (HQ 51 Highland Brigade), Stirling, Scotland
Redford cavalry barracks, Colinton, Edinburgh
Redford infantry barracks, Colinton, Edinburgh
Dale barracks, Upton near Chester
Aldershot distribution outlet
Cawdor barracks, Haverfordwest, Wales
Leighton House (ASOB Westbury), Westbury, Wiltshire
Southwick Park, Fareham
Brecon barracks
Beachley barracks, close to Chepstow, Wales
Invicta Park barracks, Maidstone, Kent
MOD Woodbridge (Rock barracks), Suffolk
St David's barracks, Graven Hill, Bicester
Vauxhall barracks, Didcot, Oxfordshire
Woolwich station, London
Buckley barracks (Hullavington barracks), Wiltshire
Dalton barracks, including Abingdon airfield, Oxfordshire
Azimghur barracks, Colerne, Wiltshire
Carver barracks, Saffron Walden, Essex
Dishforth barracks, North Yorkshire
Imphal barracks, Fulford, York
Robertson barracks, Norfolk
Fort George, near Inverness, Scotland
Glencorse barracks, Scotland
Swansea airport, Fairwood Common, Swansea
Moat House, Reading
Newtonards airfield, County Down, Northern Ireland
RAF Colerne airfield, Wiltshire
RAF Henlow technical site and airfield, Bedfordshire
1300 Parkway, Bristol
RAF Barnham, Norfolk
RAF Mildenhall, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk
RAF Halton airfield, Buckinghamshire
RAF Molesworth, Old Weston, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
RAF Alconbury, Alconbury, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Amport House, Andover, Hampshire
Defence Geographic Centre, Feltham
Ministry of Defence Police Wethershield/Wethershield airfield, Essex
Defence Business Services finance, Liverpool
DBS Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire
DBS Tomlinson House, Norcross, Blackpool, Lancashire
Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Aldershot
Lodge Hill, Chattenden, Kent
DIO Warrington
DIO head office, Sutton Coldfield
Deverell barracks, Ripon, North Yorkshire
Fort Blockhouse, Gosport
Athena House, Swindon
MOD Caledonia, Dunfermline, Scotland
Clayton barracks, Aldershot
Sennybridge storage compound, Powys, Wales[/list]

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Forces lose string of historic bases as MoD sells off another 56 sites
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/07/forces-lose-string-of-histo ric-bases-as-mod-sells-off-another-56/

Fort George, home to 3rd Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland, will be disposed of by 2032
Ben Farmer, defence correspondent
7 NOVEMBER 2016 • 7:37PM
The Armed Forces are to give up a string of historic bases and barracks in the biggest shake-up of the military estate in decades, after the Ministry of Defence announced it was disposing of 56 sites.

Sites including Woolwich barracks in London, Fort George in the Highlands and several Royal Marines bases will be sold off or the leases given up as the MoD tries to save billions following last year’s defence review.

Sir Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said the estate was too big and costly to run and the closures, which come on top of 35 others announced earlier in the year, paved the way for a more modern military.

But one senior Royal Marines officer accused the Government of “ignoring the traditions that the military runs on” by abandoning historic buildings.

The Royal Marines are losing Stonehouse barracks and the Citadel in Plymouth, as well as Norton Manor Camp near Taunton and Chivenor in Devon.

The officer said there was concern that “little thought” had been given to the relocation of units and families in race to sell off land to balance the books.

He said: “There will be a lot of people asking if the government really want an Armed Forces, we have seen the Army cut to 80,000, the Navy's surface fleet reduced and now the infrastructure is to go.

"Since the end of the campaign in Afghanistan a lot of people have taken the decision that the military no longer offers them or their families a secure life , this will simply add to that perception.

"Once you dismantle tradition you can never replace it".

The Armed Forces are 30 per cent smaller than at the turn of the century, but the estate has only reduced by 9 per cent.

Last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) outlined the MoD's aim to reduce the size of its estate by 30 per cent before 2040.

Most of the sites will be disposed of over the next 15 years and Mr Fallon said the MoD would hit its target of providing land for 55,000 new houses this Parliament. The MoD estimates it will save £3bn in running costs by 2040, but the savings over the next decade will only be £140 million.

Mr Fallon said units would be consolidated into existing bases, with parts of the UK becoming specialised hubs for different types of forces, he said.

He said the Army would have "specialised infantry" at Aldershot, mechanised wheel capability in Catterick, air assault forces in Colchester, armoured vehicle units around Salisbury Plain, medical services in the West Midlands and hubs of light infantry battalions in London, Edinburgh, Lisburn, St Athan, Blackpool and Cottesmore.

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Five Eyes 'innit:

May 2001...Echelon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

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That's one hell of a list! Electoral trouble for Tories ahead...