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Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work - Case ... - The Civil Service

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MAKING CAR SHARING AND CAR CLUBS WORKCASE STUDY SUMMARIES3 GCHQGeneral Background3.1 Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence <strong>and</strong> securityorganisation. A <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>Service</strong> Department, it reports to the Foreign Secretary <strong>and</strong> worksclosely with the UK’s other intelligence agencies (commonly known as MI5 <strong>and</strong> MI6). It’sprimary customers are the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign <strong>and</strong> Commonwealth Office <strong>and</strong>law enforcement authorities, but it also serves a wide range of other Governmentdepartments. <strong>The</strong> GCHQ web site summarises it’s key areas of work: ‘We provideinformation to support Government decision making in the fields of national security, militaryoperations <strong>and</strong> law enforcement. <strong>The</strong> intelligence we provide is at the heart of the struggleagainst terrorism <strong>and</strong> also contributes to the prevention of serious crime… We help keepGovernment communication <strong>and</strong> information systems safe from hackers <strong>and</strong> other threats.We also help those responsible for the UK’s critical national infrastructure (power, water,communications, etc.) keep their networks safe from interference <strong>and</strong> disruption’.3.2 GCHQ has recently completed consolidating its 4,500 staff in a purpose-designed facility tothe west of Cheltenham city centre. Formally staff were split on two sites, four miles apart inthe city. <strong>The</strong> new building, nick-named the ‘doughnut’ owing to its shape, has beenconstructed on a brown-field site. <strong>The</strong> space constraints of the site, coupled with a parkingspace allowances for new developments imposed by the Government Office for the SouthWest (one space for each 42 square foot of useable building space), has led to a significantinterim cut in the volume of car parking available to GCHQ staff. <strong>The</strong> two old sites providedaround 3,400 spaces between them. During the construction period at the new site there areapproximately 1,800 spaces, which will rise to 2,890 at the end of the construction period inMay 2005.An aerial view of the ‘doughnut’Final V1.1, Dec. 2004 - 13 -

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