British soldier on RAF base with 'water raining from lights' but told 'not a priority'

The subject person been plagued by mediocre attraction and repairs of work lodging successful caller years. (Image: Getty)

An RAF serviceman surviving successful subject accommodation has described however helium is being forced to unrecorded successful unsafe conditions due to the fact that the leak coming from his electrics is classed arsenic not being “a priority”.

The unnamed serviceman who is based astatine RAF Wittering, shared a video connected societal media which showed h2o coming done his ceiling, occurrence alarm and lights.

Staggeringly, aft reporting the fault, the serviceman claimed helium was informed that the contented was not deemed a priority, leaving him waiting 5 days earlier a subordinate of the attraction squad was capable to spell and instrumentality a look.

It is not the archetypal clip that subject accommodation has been criticised for not gathering the needs of those it serves. Earlier this year, Express.co.uk reported that soldiers guarding the Royal Family astatine Windsor Castle were being forced to unrecorded successful rat-infested accommodation successful betwixt shifts.

RAF Wittering, located successful Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, is the main operating basal and office for the RAF A4 Force and is simply a large Station for flying training, with implicit work and civilian unit moving there.

The accommodation astatine RAF Wittering is maintained by facilities absorption elephantine Amey who were awarded the declaration to beryllium the National Accommodation Management Services supplier successful 2022 arsenic portion of a £650 cardinal defence infrastructure plan.

The award, which saw 4 determination contracts awarded worthy £506 cardinal for repair and attraction services to subject families, promised to “deliver important changes successful what families tin expect” aft years of vexation with civilian providers crossed the equipped forces.

At the time, the MOD said that the aboriginal infrastructure programme would beryllium precise different” from the previous, much-criticised contracts, with incentives for suppliers to trim disruption for families.

The Defence Command Paper refresh, published successful July 2023, pledged a £400 cardinal concern successful accommodation implicit the adjacent 2 years.

The creator content of however subject lodging should beryllium differs wildly from the reality. (Image: Defence Infrastructure Organisation)

But contempt this, interior surveys and videos specified arsenic the 1 coming retired of RAF Wittering amusement determination is overmuch to do.

A caller study conducted by the MOD showed that little than fractional of work unit were satisfied with the wide modular of accommodation whilst lone 19 percent of respondents were satisfied with responses to, and the prime of, attraction and repair requests.

One responsive to the societal media footage said: “Maybe this is what the PM should beryllium fixing up… not spewing tripe astir helping the stateless Veterans helium says are ‘in each municipality and metropolis successful this country…"

The Express.co.uk has reached retired to Amey for remark but astatine the clip of publication, nary effect had been received.