Fraser Range/HMS St. George, Eastney, South Coast – Feb 2015
Visited with Mookster on a quick South Coast Touyr, after a Fish and Chip Lunch, we walked up a nudist beach of all places, to reach this rather trashed location. It is certainly not worth a big drive but good for an hour or so, some good graff and some some not so good graff here.
History Borrowed and adjusted from TrevBish @ 28 Days
HMS St George was a shore establishment for the Royal Navy until its 1980s closure.
Fraser has previously been used by the MoD as a firing range and for gunnery training for a significant period of time after the 2nd World War.
In more recent times the emphasis on training dissipated in favour of research and development of electronic and radar detection systems complementing DERA’s facility at Portsdown.
Since the the Defence and Evaluation Research Agency was privatised and subsequent formation of QinetiQ in its place, the latter have sought to make more effective use of the corporate estate.
As part of this process QinetiQ activities on the Fraser site have been moved to Portsdown Technology Park and the site has been declared surplus to requirements.
The Planning Committee resolved to grant permission (subject to conditions - not yet met) on an outline planning application (A*26996/AP) to build 3 large blocks of flats, 131 apartments, directly overlooking the naturist beach. Although they have yet to submit a detailed planning application or to start demolishing the existing radar station.
The site had a more modernised and bland part as well as the older parts
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Thanks Again Guys. More At:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/landie_man/sets/72157650896476939/
Visited with Mookster on a quick South Coast Touyr, after a Fish and Chip Lunch, we walked up a nudist beach of all places, to reach this rather trashed location. It is certainly not worth a big drive but good for an hour or so, some good graff and some some not so good graff here.
History Borrowed and adjusted from TrevBish @ 28 Days
HMS St George was a shore establishment for the Royal Navy until its 1980s closure.
Fraser has previously been used by the MoD as a firing range and for gunnery training for a significant period of time after the 2nd World War.
In more recent times the emphasis on training dissipated in favour of research and development of electronic and radar detection systems complementing DERA’s facility at Portsdown.
Since the the Defence and Evaluation Research Agency was privatised and subsequent formation of QinetiQ in its place, the latter have sought to make more effective use of the corporate estate.
As part of this process QinetiQ activities on the Fraser site have been moved to Portsdown Technology Park and the site has been declared surplus to requirements.
The Planning Committee resolved to grant permission (subject to conditions - not yet met) on an outline planning application (A*26996/AP) to build 3 large blocks of flats, 131 apartments, directly overlooking the naturist beach. Although they have yet to submit a detailed planning application or to start demolishing the existing radar station.
The site had a more modernised and bland part as well as the older parts
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Thanks Again Guys. More At:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/landie_man/sets/72157650896476939/
