{"id":55236,"date":"2019-04-08T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=55236"},"modified":"2019-04-08T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:20:39","slug":"barracks-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/barracks-homes\/55236\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts from the shovel face: Less \u201cSwords to ploughshares\u201d, more barracks to homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Paul Nathanail, managing director of specialist environmental consultancy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lqm.co.uk\/\">Land Quality Management Ltd<\/a>, reflects on the role of information in delivering on the recent Homes England \u2013 Ministry of Defence partnership goal of 10,000 homes<\/h2>\n<p><em>#tldr Successfully redeveloping surplus military land is helped by detailed desk studies overcoming limitations in normal information sources<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent announcement of a partnership between Homes England (HE) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) got me thinking.\u00a0 HE and the MoD\u2019s Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) will work together to deliver over 10,000 homes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-partnership-unlocks-land-for-development-across-england\">7 different parcels<\/a> of surplus army land \u2013 with the potential for more such land in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55239 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190314_134426-e1554736653538.jpg\" alt=\"Military homes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Land that has been part of military bases since World War 1 in some cases is no longer needed as DIO modernises the defence estate. High time for former\u00a0MOD\u00a0land to serve its local residents and the economy in new ways.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering the evidence to support a planning application for redeveloping former military land \u2013 like all brownfield land \u2013 begins with a desk study and a walkover survey.\u00a0 But many military sites were not marked on Ordnance Survey maps until relatively recently.<\/p>\n<p>The former RAF Spitalgate, one of the 7 sites, opened in 1915.\u00a0 Yet the 1930s editions of the 1:10,560 scale OS maps show the site as open fields crossed by a bridleway and a Cold Harbour Lane (though not the one of Millwall Football Club fame).\u00a0 As late as the 1950s, the OS only partly revealed the true land use by overprinting \u201cAirfield\u201d on the fields and showing an abruptly truncated Cold Harbour Lane.\u00a0 By 1977, Spitalgate Airfield and an array of buildings, including the Grade 2 listed, x-chromosome shaped Officers Mess, are marked on the map \u2013 two years after the airfield closed!\u00a0 Events such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcar.org.uk\/crash-logs\">airplane crashes<\/a> were recorded but not necessarily mapped \u2013 necessitating the use of geophysics during the site investigation stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winthorpe.org.uk\/winthorpe-airfield\">RAF Winthorpe<\/a>, now home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkairmuseum.org\/\">Newark Air Museum<\/a> among others, was never used for operations, allegedly because of a misaligned runway, but it was one of only a few airfields in the Nottinghamshire-Lincolnshire area to be attacked \u2013 on the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of November 1940 when a parachute mine fell on the south side of the airfield leaving a large hole but causing no loss of life or aircraft.\u00a0 Unexploded ordnance (UXO) is a hazard on many of the airfields in southern England that were within reach of enemy bombers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55240 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_20190314_135018-e1554736783122.jpg\" alt=\"Military homes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>A conventional desk study would identify the nature of some forms of military land uses but not their extent or details. Landmark\u2019s digital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landmark.co.uk\/news-archive\/russia%E2%80%99s-cold-war-maps-britain\">archive<\/a> of Russian military mapping provides an insight into military land extents across the country. Likewise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/\">The National Archives<\/a> are a rich source of site plans and documentary evidence of how land was used.<\/p>\n<p>A former student of mine illustrated this when tasked with developing a conceptual site model of a former RAF base.\u00a0 His visit to the National Archives uncovered the presence of a FIDO system.\u00a0 The \u201cFog, Intense Dispersal Of&#8221; system allowed aircraft returning from in poor visibility to land.\u00a0 FIDO involved pumping petrol through two pipelines situated along either side of a runway and then igniting the fuel sprayed vertically out of burner jets along the pipeline to produce 6 feet high walls of fog-clearing flame. One long retired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinmuseum.com\/famjustin\/Miles5.html\">RAF Flight Engineer<\/a> recalled that \u201ca jeep with a flaming brand lashed to its rear drove fast down both sides of the runway. The heat from the flames dispersed the fog so that &#8216;planes could land.\u201d\u00a0 It seems highly likely that not all the fuel was burnt and some would have seeped into the well-drained ground RAF runways were built on.<\/p>\n<p>Homes England\u2019s new online <a href=\"https:\/\/homesengland.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Shortlist\/index.html?appid=80d465bbdbbf462e856243ca7ff74cc8\">mapping tool<\/a>, part of HE\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/homes-england-land-hub\">Land Hub<\/a>, shows the location of sites that have been sold, are on the market and are in the pipeline.\u00a0 However, it has yet to include the seven sites that Homes England and DIO are partnering up to redevelop.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually detailed desk studies and archive searches will provide deep insights into contamination from former, often concealed land uses and help bring such sites back into beneficial use.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, the deeper the understanding of how land was used, the better will land contamination risks be appreciated and managed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a personal view and guest blog written for\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/stakeholders\/argyll-environmental\/39798\/\">Argyll Environmental<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0by Paul Nathanail, managing director of specialist environmental consultancy,\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lqm.co.uk\/\">Land Quality Management Ltd<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Nathanail, MD of Land Quality Management Ltd, reflects on the on the recent Homes England \u2013 Ministry of Defence partnership goal of 10,000 homes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[656,172717,849],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[172377],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-housing","8":"tag-planning-construction-insight","9":"tag-sh-argyll-environmental","10":"stakeholder_rel_tag-argyll-environmental"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Less \u201cSwords to ploughshares\u201d, more barracks to homes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Nathanail, MD of Land Quality Management Ltd, reflects on the on the recent Homes England \u2013 Ministry of Defence partnership goal of 10,000 homes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/barracks-homes\/55236\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thoughts from the shovel face: Less \u201cSwords to ploughshares\u201d, more barracks to homes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paul Nathanail, MD of Land Quality Management Ltd, reflects on the on the recent Homes England \u2013 Ministry of Defence partnership goal of 10,000 homes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/barracks-homes\/55236\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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