Project MoDEL

[1] The project involves the consolidation and sale of surplus Ministry of Defence properties around Greater London into around £180m of new developments at RAF Northolt.

[2] A total of 80% of the existing buildings at RAF Northolt were demolished and replaced by the newly built facilities.

[9] RAF Bentley Priory was a non-flying Royal Air Force station near Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow.

The RAF Bentley Priory site includes a Grade II* listed Officers' Mess and Italian Gardens.

[12] Bletchley Park established an outpost at the station during the Second World War to house some of the Bombe and Colossus codebreaker machines.

Other buildings were used by the Post Office, the United States Air Force and a women's teacher training college.

[13] All Royal Air Force activity, along with the offices of the British Forces Post Office, based at the Inglis Barracks in Mill Hill from 1962, were relocated to new purpose-built buildings at RAF Northolt, along with new accommodation to replace the demolished barracks at Eastcote and West Ruislip, following a public-private agreement between the government and contractors.

11 Group RAF commanded by Air Chief Marshal Keith Park during the Battle of Britain, when it was responsible for the defence of the main area of combat around London and the South-East of England.

These involve the construction of 1,340 homes, shops, a theatre and a primary school built over 10 years, with the retention of all listed buildings on the site.

[20] RAF West Ruislip was a former US Navy administration base, located in Ickenham within the London Borough of Hillingdon.