I see Annington are flogging off some quarters

[NutLoose]

Station Commanders etc ? Looks like them and big gardens.
Four former RAF family homes in Lincolnshire have been refurbished and put on the market. Once part of the family accommodation at the former RAF Kirton in Lindsey, which closed in 2014, the homes are priced from £120,000.
Strange they can find monies to refurb them when they can smell a profit while other service personnel living in quarters suffer poor conditions.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/ho...sey/york-road/

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/n...bished-7943114

[Spunky Monkey]

At first I thought they were cheap, but then I realised they look terrible but on large plots.
The urinal in the corner of each room, cheap UPVC windows, the strange bendy down pipe in picture 13, no landscaping, awful paint and carpet colours, bland kitchens.
Defo a do-er upper.
I would hardly say they have been refurbished.
Hopefully the money from the sale will go directly to the service accommodation.

[_Agrajag_]

They sold four largish (4 bed I think) ex-RAF quarters not far from me a year or so ago. The houses were in a dreadful state, had been left empty for at least a decade. No one locally seemed to remember them being lived in. They looked like they had been built some time in the 1960's, nowhere near any RAF station that I know of..

[Easy Street]

Originally Posted by NutLoose

Strange they can find monies to refurb them when they can smell a profit while other service personnel living in quarters suffer poor conditions.

Annington Homes aren't responsible in any way for the upkeep of any of their properties still in use by the MOD. That is entirely the MOD's job, done very badly through contractors. If Annington wanted to spruce up disused properties to get a better price for them, there is nothing stopping it, but as stated by SM I don't reckon they have done so in this case.

Originally Posted by Spunky Monkey

Hopefully the money from the sale will go directly to the service accommodation.

See above. Any money from the sale is Annington's as the owner: it's effectively the return on the investment it made all those years ago in buying the estate from Michael Portillo, the proceeds of which disappeared into the Government accounts decades ago . Liability for upkeep of the remaining properties remains squarely with MOD.

[rolling20]

I always thought there was something rather special regarding the houses built pre war in the Georgian style, especially the ones used by the Staish and mortals just below him.
Duxford has a nice little close of these abodes, now privately owned and very nice they look too.
Having roomed in a similar property, which was yards from the 07 threshold at St Athan, I guess I'm misty eyed and nostalgic.

[212man]

Strange they can find monies to refurb them when they can smell a profit while other service personnel living in quarters suffer poor conditions.

We appear to be looking at different photos if that’s your idea of a refurb!

[NutLoose]

Erm no I was going by their description, they do look like they acquired some cheap 1990,s kitchens etc to bung in, and did a deal with sinks are us..

even something simple like fence the patch and bung in some borders would have improved the curb appeal, though I suspect the “refurb” was simply to disguise the poor internal condition prior to flogging them, I could see a decent sized house when properly brought up to modern standards with a few trees and bushes externally in a fenced garden and a total internal reconfigure and refit.

The guttering down piping reminds me totally of military housing I mean WTF…