This former WWII cold store was converted into Home Office sub regional control 3.2 (standby to 3.1 at Skendleby).
This former WWII cold store was converted into Home Office sub regional control 3.2 (standby to 3.1 at Skendleby).
Loughborough Mail - Thursday 05 May 1994 FOR SALE: Nuclear bunker Unused A FORMER nuclear shelter in Loughborough could be demolished and replaced by a housing development councillors have ruled The Home Office has put the three-acre site at the rear of Burder Street and which is dominated by the shelter known locally as the bunker up for sale In an attempt to market the site the Home Office applied to Chamwood Borough Council for permission to build houses on it And at a meeting of Charnwood plans subcommittee members approved the idea Concerned But they were concerned about its closeness to the main Midland railway line and insisted that any development should be carried out in such a way as to ensure that the occupiers of the houses would be protected from the noise generated by the railway both in their homes and in their gardens They also ruled that none of the dwellings should be occupied until a suitable access to the site had been created from Meadow Lane Next month the council will consider another planning application for the same site The Shooting and Fishing Centre in nearby Nottingham Road is seeking to convert the huge rectangular shelter into an indoor shooting range to be operated by a gun club on a daily basis from 10am till 10pm The 100-room bunker with its own air filter which would have housed Midlands bureaucrats in the event of a nuclear war was a former cold meat store taken over by the Government about 10 years ago and converted into what was known as a regional communications centre
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