Thanks David for the informative item which took me by surprise as right here in my home town of Hamilton, New Zealand, the British training company CTC have invested very large amounts of money into a fine facility. Not only have they injected much effort into the airport complex, but have built a magnificent accomodation unit for up to 144, mainly UK trainees. Also, our City Council and Airport Company have been very supportive in several ways. Our Hamilton International Airport is pretty well perfect as a flight training HQ.
Whilst probably not really relevant, I ponder that it was certainly quite acceptable for NZ and Australia to train large numbers of pilots out here under the WWII Empire Air Training Scheme then ship them off to England to engage in air battles against German flak and night-fighters in appalling icy weather conditions...and do it for the duration. I know without a shadow of doubt that your British trainee pilots love their time out here and will be better aviators for it.