Operational training centre update

Welcome to the first blog about the construction of our new operational training site and community safety centre in Bury. My name is Sean Booth and I am leading on the project. I will be blogging about the operational training part of the development. If you click here you can fly through and see what the finished site will look like.



We intend building a site where we can train all of our firefighters and officers to deal with all of the different types of incidents they may encounter including fires in houses, commercial and industrial buildings and in vehicles or on roadways, road traffic collisions, Metrolink, rail and aircraft incidents, collapsed buildings, water rescues, rescues from height and many other scenarios.


We bought the site in 2013 and have spent a year or so getting our plans together and gaining planning approval.

We started work in May 2015 and our first job is to clean-up the site – we expect this will take another 10 weeks before we’re ready for the construction to start.

As we are cleaning up the site we are finding lots of voids, pipes and water courses underground and we are making sure they are all removed, filled in, renovated or avoided and left in situ as required.

The next step will be to strip off the cladding on the existing large warehouse buildings ready for them to be renovated.

They will have new cladding, which will make them look much smarter than they do now and will also ensure they last 25 years before they need any replacement and they will also provide far better sound and heat insulation.