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Fraser Gunnery Range closed in 1986, but the base was put to use again as the Civil Marine Division of the Admiralty Research Establishment, moved there from Eastney Fort East in 1989. The ARE's work at Fraser consisted mostly of testing RADAR equipment using large steel-lattice towers to improve range. In 1995, the ARE became part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and in 2001, not being of particular strategic importance, Fraser was transferred to the privatised defence company QinetiQ, who slowly wound down operations, closing the site in 2006. Plans were announced to replace the buildings with 131 flats, but by 2011 no progress had been made and the plans were withdrawn. In recent years, the site has become an unofficial tourist attraction, aware of this and the dangers of the now derelict buildings, in 2013, QinetiQ had the base's two iconic RADAR towers demolished to stop people from climbing them.
source - http://derelictmisc.org.uk
Fraser Gunnery Range
Fraser Gunnery Range was an amazing site, however there was a bit of uncertainties in the site as there was asbestos in a lot of the buildings and some of them even had unstable flooring. A few of the buildings; that had roof top access; had had the doorways bricked up, but that didn't stop us from getting up on the roof. We had very narrow gaps to climb through to get onto the roof of the main building but we did manage to get out on the roof top and the view was amazing. The site was so ruined though and there was graffiti everywhere and all the windows had been smashed in leaving glass everywhere, however we went to the site for the pros and not the cons. Check out so-me of the roof top shots in the video panel below
