The RSME PPP will rationalise the training estate to improve efficiency and reduce costs to RSME. The project will also improve the standard of living, working and training accommodation.
RSME training is currently delivered at Minley in Hampshire and Chatham in Kent. Holdfast will relocate two schools of the Defence Explosives, Munitions, and Search School (DEMSS), namely the National Search Centre (NSC) and the Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal School (DEODS), from Lodge Hill in Chatham to Bicester in Oxfordshire.
- The benefit of moving DEODS and NSC is that it puts them closer to the third school, the Army School of Ammunition. This will allow efficiencies and improvements in intelligence sharing and the cross-fertilisation of ideas and training methods.
- The relocation of NSC and DEODS will release Lodge Hill in Medway for a strategic commercial development as part of the Thames Gateway Project.
Follow the links to Chatham, Minley and Bicester to learn more about proposed developments at each site.
