Corporate report

Better defence estate strategy

This strategy sets out plans to achieve a more efficient, modern and capability focused defence estate.

• From: Ministry of Defence and Defence Infrastructure Organisation
• Published: 7 November 2016
• Last updated: 14 March 2019 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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A better defence estate

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In February 2019 MOD published an update to the DEO Programme following detailed assessment setting out the first 5 year plan for delivering the strategy. Defence Secretary announces 5 year plan for key military sites.

The better defence estate strategy aims to support military capability by providing a smaller but better estate for the armed forces and their families out to 2040 and beyond.

It is a detailed, long term plan to reduce the defence built estate by 30% and provides a framework for the geographical lay down of our forces in the UK for at least a generation.

The strategy has been developed in partnership with military leaders and sets out where investment will be concentrated and where sites will be sold to deliver a significantly smaller estate which is more efficient and better enables military capability.

Published 7 November 2016
Last updated 14 March 2019 + show all updates

1. 14 March 2019

   Added link to February 2019 announcement.

2. 9 December 2016

   Added updated version and removed addendum information.

3. 7 November 2016

   First published.