few bits of info from someone who works in public sector finance….

the bunker will be sold for full open market value – which will probably be somewhere approaching a million quid if not more…. its in a prime bit of land, has backup power and has a tunnel running directly to the nearest BT exchange.

most of these places end up becoming document storage warehouses or data centres, they are not particularly safe or pleasant for lots of humans to work in – which is why they fell out of use in the first place. (think about it – in a world currently at war, such a bunker would remain earmarked for Government use if it was still useable!)

one of these places was bought by ex-ROC workers (the people who would have run it) and preserved, they even collected and installed all the comms equipment so it looked like the old days.

the old chaps who did it were well-heeled middle englanders in their retirement years with spare time and cash.., most of whom carried on working in the electronics industries for defence/aerospace/surveillance industries throughought the Cold War.

I have been to a few of their websites over the years and got the impression that some would quite happilly have sat in the bunker drinking their pints as the tumours grew within their bodies and the beer ran out, knowing that at least thousands of other citizens in the enemy country were also dying…. nuclear war was never a case of winning but of making sure everyone loses. (that said they weren’t bad chaps and many actually realised the futility of what they were doing)

incidentally someone buying this may find certain items like the blast doors are removed – partly for “safety” but more likely because they are a big chunk of metal the Chinese will pay good money for.

this place has been empty years like the others, why is it being sold now? remember chaps, theres a war on

incidentally, squatters on Crown Estate (which means govt buildings as well, not just the bits the Queen owns!) are removed fairly quickly nowadays and a full Government legal team is used against them. (thiink how many travellers would be looking at that site…)

this can actually be harsher than private squatting as the lawyers tend to recover the costs of eviction if possible by seizing private assets (cars, caravans, even houses etc). All the Greenham Common peace women had their houses confiscated and re-sold even though they won their case to occupy the camp (now a cold-war/peace museum) , to recover the costs of policing them over 20+ years!

entrepreneurs have previously tried to buy these and use them as clubs/rave venues but have encountered serious (and perhaps understandable) objections from the Fire Brigade.

these places were made to keep people in and radiation out, have few entry/exit points and not much space in the design to add others. (The fire fighters know the exact locations anyway as many of the older ones would have trained there…)

If only! There’s no way in the world the government would let us have it for parties. Unless president blair wanted to get all the partyheads in in place underground and and fill the entrance in. Viola end of problem