The Home Office opened the college on the site in 1968. The first students whilst having most of the facilities seen today had no proper accommodation and were bunked in large Nissen huts (in the area that is now the cricket and football pitches)note. The huts were wooden with shallow pitched roofs so were NOT Nissen huts although that term is used as a catch-all., which originally housed the RAF personnel when it was an operational airbase. The Staff College at Dorking was closed in 1981 and all training was transferred to Moreton.