Trainees, medics and management staff from around the country will relocate to the West Midlands in a £200m project to provide high quality,living accommodation, offices, and training facilities within easy travelling distance of central Birmingham.

Whittington Barracks in Lichfield is set to become the home of military medicine from April 2010. The Midlands Medical Accommodation project (MMA) will see around £200m invested in Whittington Barracks for redevelopment.

Full planning approval has been granted for the redevelopment of Whittington Barracks. 2,000 military and civilian staff will eventually work at the barracks when the MMA project completes in 2014.

The decision will bring new jobs to the Midlands over the next few years and will also help to fulfil the government's objective of moving jobs out of London and South East. Around 200 staff will move from London, Gosport and Halton to Lichfield in 2010.