St Athan development land for sale earmarked for multi-billion pound military training site
10 August 2010
A piece of development land for sale in St Athan has been earmarked for a multi-billion pound military training base. The project has moved a step closer to fruition as plans were lodged with local planning officials.
Vale of Glamorgan councillors granted outline planning permission for the college in September last year. The £12 billion Defence Training College is due to open in 2014. This major development would see training for armed services privatised and centralised. Those in support of transforming the development land for sale into a military college say that it would generate 5,000 jobs.
The project will be subject to a protective planning procedure. This will need to be closely adhered to before building work will be given the go ahead on the development land for sale. As a result, a series of “reserved matters,” were imposed on the outline planning, including housing, sports facilities, and infrastructure.
However, some experts have expressed doubts as to whether the college will survive a major review of defence spending. Secretary of Defence, Dr Liam Fox is due to announce the results of his review at the end of October.
Prime Minister David Cameron went some way to allay fears, bolstering confidence by announcing that he felt that there was “very good” logic behind the college project.
He said: “I know the case for the Defence Training College at St Athan. Every time I come to South Wales the case is pressed on me very, very strongly. And that’s fine – there’s very good industrial, defence logic for it.
“I think we all know that the armed forces of the future are going to have to be very well trained, highly mobile, extremely professional, able to deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice – so all those things militate in favour of good training and well-funded training.”
In an effort to address environmental concerns on the development land for sale, plans for five bat houses and 21 ponds for great crested newts have been submitted.
10 August 2010
A piece of development land for sale in St Athan has been earmarked for a multi-billion pound military training base. The project has moved a step closer to fruition as plans were lodged with local planning officials.
Vale of Glamorgan councillors granted outline planning permission for the college in September last year. The £12 billion Defence Training College is due to open in 2014. This major development would see training for armed services privatised and centralised. Those in support of transforming the development land for sale into a military college say that it would generate 5,000 jobs.
The project will be subject to a protective planning procedure. This will need to be closely adhered to before building work will be given the go ahead on the development land for sale. As a result, a series of “reserved matters,” were imposed on the outline planning, including housing, sports facilities, and infrastructure.
However, some experts have expressed doubts as to whether the college will survive a major review of defence spending. Secretary of Defence, Dr Liam Fox is due to announce the results of his review at the end of October.
Prime Minister David Cameron went some way to allay fears, bolstering confidence by announcing that he felt that there was “very good” logic behind the college project.
He said: “I know the case for the Defence Training College at St Athan. Every time I come to South Wales the case is pressed on me very, very strongly. And that’s fine – there’s very good industrial, defence logic for it.
“I think we all know that the armed forces of the future are going to have to be very well trained, highly mobile, extremely professional, able to deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice – so all those things militate in favour of good training and well-funded training.”
In an effort to address environmental concerns on the development land for sale, plans for five bat houses and 21 ponds for great crested newts have been submitted.
