New training facility at MOD Lyneham gets go-ahead
The site will be used to teach service personnel how to maintain specialist vehicles
A new training facility at MOD Lyneham has been given the go-ahead by Wiltshire Planners.
In July, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation lodged a planning application for a new facility on the site of former hangars at the military base.
The facility will be used to train servicemen and women how to maintain specialist military vehicles.
The new building will measure just over 27,000 square metres and will be located towards the centre of the sprawling 466 hectare site.
The build will be led by Kier Construction.
The proposed works form part of Project Tellus, which seeks to provide a number of new buildings within the MoD Lyneham site, and the refurbishment of existing buildings, to provides new accommodation, training and amenity facilities, alongside soft and hard landscaping.
Planning officers were told that no heritage assets would be affected at the base, which dates back to the 1930s, and became the RAF’s principal transport base, playing host to the Hercules aircraft fleet from the last 1960s until 2011.
The new buildings will not be visible from nearby public roads or houses.
The decision was delegated to Wiltshire Council planning officers, who granted permission on December 24.