New Army Housing On Salisbury Plain

Work is underway to build 917 new homes around the Salisbury Plain Training Area to help accommodate Service Families who are coming back from Germany.

A former vehicle depot site is being prepared for brand new housing where 247 three and four bedroom homes are hoped to be built - it is all part of the Army 2020 releasing programme.

The quality of the existing housing around Salisbury Plain has been repeatedly criticised by families who’ve encountered damp, leaks and other issues.

These new builds are supposed to represent a big leap forward on the older houses in the area.

The 917 new homes planned here as well as in Bulford and Larkhill are exactly the kind of new modern accommodation army families who’ve been coping with ageing and deteriorating housing stock have been crying out for, but who will it be available for?

"Research into typical family sizes and numbers in Germany came up with the number of 917 to accommodate all troops from Germany and leave some surplus for the surge of troops coming into the area."

In September, eight brand new Single Living Accommodation blocks opened in Larkhill which will take 378 of the single soldiers coming back from Germany

Now what we have here is hotel-like en-suite stock. Soldiers seem desperately happy as they are built to a very high standard and spec."

The new family housing is expected to be ready in time for the first families coming back here in May 2019.