Overview
- The Government has published its Defence Housing Strategy, committing £9 billion over ten years to modernise, refurbish or rebuild more than 40,000 service family homes.
- About 14,000 properties will undergo substantial refurbishment or full replacement, with upgrades including new kitchens, bathrooms and heating systems.
- The plan identifies surplus defence land for over 100,000 additional homes for civilian and military families, supported by a proposed Defence Development Fund to recycle land-sale proceeds.
- Ministers say the Annington Homes deal returned 36,000 properties to public ownership, with claimed savings of £600,000 per day to be reinvested in the estate.
- The strategy is informed by an independent review led by Natalie Elphicke Ross and a survey of more than 6,000 service families, answering Commons findings of widespread substandard housing linked to retention pressures.