Secretariat
St George’s House
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
DMS Whittington
Lichfield, Staffordshire
WS14 9PY
E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx
www.gov.uk/DIO
Simon Gough
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Ref. FOI 2024/15118
2 September 2024
Dear Simon Gough
Thank you for your email of 15 August 2024 requesting the following information:
“Can you please advise who I should contact regarding the possible purchase of a small
parcel of agricultural land in the vicinity of Keevil Airfield, which may be owned by the
Ministry of Defence. The field is centred on Grid Reference ST 92194 57677 and the
access gate to the field off Martins Road in Keevil is GR ST 92278 57765.
I would like to purchase the land, so I can gift it back to the village and would be willing to
sign any covenants that are required.”
I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (FOIA).
A search for the information has now been completed within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and I
can confirm that no information, in scope of your request is held.
Under Section 16 of the FOIA (Advice and Assistance), you may find it helpful to know that the
land parcel you are interested in purchasing, has an ongoing defence requirement and is not for
sale.
A list of MOD buildings/land that is for sale or coming up for sale, can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disposal-database-house-of-commons-report.
If you have any queries regarding the content of this letter, please contact this office in the first
instance.
If you wish to complain about the handling of your request, or the content of this response, you
can request an independent internal review by contacting the Information Rights Compliance
team, Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail
CIO-FOI-
xx@xxx.xxx.xx). Please note that any request for an internal review should be made in writing
within 40 working days of the date of this response.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may raise your complaint directly to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Please note that the Information Commissioner will not normally investigate your case until the
MOD internal review process has been completed. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can
be found on the Commissioner's website at
https://ico.org.uk/. Yours sincerely
DIO Secretariat
