In his statement in the House of Commons yesterday, Defence Secretary Liam Fox announced that the army is definitely leaving Arborfield by 2015.  This presumably satisfies Wokingham Borough Council’s desire for confirmation that the site will be available for building on, and means they are likely to push ahead with adopting the Arborfield Strategic Development location masterplan.  I think residents’ last hope of preventing the whole thing might just have gone.
The relevant sentence of his statement on July 18th says
“This confirms that the Department will withdraw from Arborfield in Berkshire and Bordon in Hampshire, releasing the sites for sale by 2014-15 at the latest.”

You can read the full statement at http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2011-07-18a.66WS.1

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