[1] The site was established in 1942, when a battle training area was required, and a "Nazi village" was built.

[5] The British Army, alongside allied nations such as Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Kosovo, Sweden, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Norway and Romania have been utilising STANTA as part of Operation Interflex, the UK's mission to deliver basic and leadership training to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, following Russia's invasion in 2022.

Ukrainian troops are taught how to deal with complex scenarios involving trench warfare, close quarters fighting, drones and mines.

[6][7] The battle area includes four historic churches; the one at West Tofts was restored by Pugin and a new church building forms part of the purpose-built village of Eastmere, built to give soldiers experience of fighting on the northern European plains.

[8] It was announced in mid 2023 that "trench facilities located close to the perimeter of the Urban Training Facility, consisting of pre-cast concrete ducts/channels forming linear T-shaped trenches, with a mixture of pre-cast and cast in-situ structures" were to be constructed and completed by June 2024.