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The Royal Air Force station role ceased on 30 May 2008, following the relocation of units to their new accommodation at RAF Northolt and the site will be used for private accommodation and the
Officers' Mess will become a Battle of Britain museum. RAF Bentley Priory closed in 2008 with plans for the
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RAF Uxbridge closed on 31 March 2010 with the final remaining units transferring to their new base at RAF Northolt the following day. Plans for the site, totalling 110-acre (450,000 m), were approved for development in
January 2011 by the London Borough of Hillingdon. These involve the
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from 1962, were relocated to new purpose-built buildings at RAF Northolt, along with new accommodation to replace the demolished barracks at
Eastcote and West Ruislip, following a public-private agreement between the government and contractors. The new Post Office building was designed and
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construction of 1,340 homes, shops, a theatre and a primary school built over 10 years, with the retention of all listed buildings on the site. The London
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in 2007 with plans for the construction of 385 new homes. The 19-acre (77,000 m) site was the first to be disposed of as part of
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were initially selected as core sites, for which
British and American units would move into. The Royal Air Force would have left RAF Uxbridge, allowing the US Air Force and Navy to move from
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codebreaker machines. After the war the site was purchased by the Crown in 1947 and housed the fledgling
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building to be refurbished with luxury apartments and a
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