Knook Camp near Warminster THE Ministry of Defence has pledged to carefully consider a National Audit Office report on its single living accommodation provision. In a new report, the NAO said the MoD was failing to meet its commitment to provide all armed forces service personnel with high-quality subsidised accommodation. Some said the accommodation was failing to meet basic needs, with common problems being the lack of heating and hot water, limited storage space, poor or expensive wi-fi, and a lack of cooking facilities. Gareth Davies, the NAO head, said: Decades of under-investment has left many of the barracks where members of our armed forces live in a poor state.
Knook Camp near Warminster THE Ministry of Defence wants to upgrade accommodation at the Knook army camp next to the A36 south of Warminster. The MoD s Defence Infrastructure Organisations wants to demolish the camp’s existing buildings and construct seven single-storey accommodation blocks and associated external work. The move is using money from a £200 million investment to improve armed forces accommodation announced by the Defence Secretary last summer. The MoD wants to install more carbon efficient accommodation blocks on training sites, including Knook Camp on Salisbury Plain. The plans have been unanimously backed by Heytesbury, Imber & Knook parish councillors but they have some reservations about the lighting the MoD wishes to install.
New carbon efficient accommodation marks start of nationwide improvements on the Defence Training Estate
Soldiers using Salisbury Plain and Nesscliff Training Areas are the first to benefit from new carbon efficient accommodation, delivered as part of the £45-million Net Carbon Accommodation Programme (NetCAP).
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25 January 2021 Representatives from Landmarc Support Services, Reds10 and Defence Infrastructure Organisation at the opening of the Westdown Camp building in summer 2020. Copyright Landmarc Support Services.
The programme is being part-funded using money from a £200-million investment to improve armed forces accommodation, which was announced by the Defence Secretary last summer.
The MOD is investing more than £35-million of this funding, in addition to funding from the British Army, into its nationwide programme, which aims to improve facilities for troops when they are training away from their permanent barracks.