Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, will take a more centralised and strategic approach to its property following a government review being conducted by Lord Levene.
Levene was commissioned by the government to carry out a defence reform review, looking at how to make the MoD more efficient.
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The government has set out plans for an £850m programme of asset sales and efficiency savings in the Ministry of Defence’s Strategic Defence Review.
The long-awaited review of defence spending was unveiled by prime minister David Cameron this afternoon. It is set to cost up to 42,000 jobs, including 25,000 civilian …

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has terminated plans to rationalise its training facilities into a single base at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales.
The £14bn private finance initiative project was to involve building a large defence training college in order to vacate sites elsewhere in the country.
The …

The Ministry of Defence’s property arm Defence Estates has completed a new headquarters for the British Army in Andover in Wiltshire.
Defence Estates has upgraded two buildings at the British Army’s Land Forces site in Wiltshire, to complete an ‘open plan’ working environment. The new site was developed after the integration …

Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, has appointed Andrew Manley as an interim chief executive.
Public Property UK can reveal that Manley, who is currently commercial director, will be acting chief executive until after the strategic defence review in the autumn.
Defence Estates has abandoned its search for a permanent …

The consortium set to build and manage a £12bn military training base for the Ministry of Defence in Wales has today applied to build facilities on the site, including a military museum and a church.
Metrix, which wants to open the Defence Training College in St Athan in 2014, has already …

Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, is seeking planning consent for 1,650 homes to be built on its Graven Hill depot site near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
The MoD, which wants to sell the 130 ha site as part of its estates rationalisation scheme, has entered pre-application discussions with Cherwell District …

Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, has sold a former Royal Navy site near Harrogate for £4.7m to North Yorkshire County Council.
The 20 acre site, which was known as HMS Forest Moor and used as an intelligence unit during World War II, has been sold for development as …

The Ministry of Defence is failing to raise as much money as it should through selling off property, the government’s spending watchdog warns today.
Defence Estates, which runs the MoD’s £20bn property portfolio, raised £3.4bn from disposals in the last decade. Yet the MoD has reduced personnel numbers three times faster …

Defence Estates, the Ministry of Defence’s property arm, has approved a new structure for its property management contracts, which are due to begin between 2011 and 2014.
The MOD’s five regional PRIME contracts, each worth hundreds of millions, will be replaced by four 10-year contracts, worth a total of £5bn.
Each contract is …