New homes for soldiers

Service personnel and their families are moving into hundreds of new homes built under the army’s Borona Programme

As part of a £100 million redevelopment programme, six new living blocks with a total of 346 new houses are being built by Lovell on behalf of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). These houses will to provide modern, purpose built accommodation for soldiers and their families who are relocating to MOD Stafford from Germany.

Lance Corporal Richard Neely of 16 Signal Regiment was among the first of the arriving soldiers to be presented with the keys to his new house. He said: “It is brilliant to move in to a brand new build. Everything is so clean and well designed. The layout of our home is great and although there are very few people to have moved in yet, when the estate fills up I’m sure there will be a tremendous feeling of community here. It is a lovely environment in which to bring up our new daughter Primrose, so we are really happy with it.”

Stuart Gallacher, DIO’s Principal Project Manager said: “Good quality accommodation such as this is a great example of the MOD’s investment in our service personnel. I am extremely pleased to see both the family homes and the single living blocks delivered to such a high standard and look forward to welcoming more soldiers and their families to Stafford over the coming months.”