Friday 15th June 2012
Above: An architect’s visual impression of what the proposed housing would look like, at Bishopstrow Road, Warminster, when the Beeline Coach Depot (which currently occupies the site) is redeveloped. The northern of the two bridges over the divided River Wylye is in the foreground (bridge wall on the left).Â
Beeline (R&R Coaches) have been granted planning permission by Wiltshire Council for their proposed residential development at their coach depot at Bishopstrow Road, near Boreham Crossroads, on the eastern side of Warminster.
Beeline, who have been in business since 1971, can now proceed with demolishing the buildings on the site (which are used as offices and for housing coaches), making way for a small mix of houses. A single four bedroom house, four three-bedroom houses, and four other three-bedroom houses in a terrace, plus three car barns, are destined to occupy the site which is situated in an island of the River Wylye, east of Boreham Mill.
The area has been prone to flooding but the Environment Agency have informed the Council that they are satisfied with Beeline’s plans to minimise any possible problems of this nature.
The site is outside that covered by the Warminster Town Plan but a planning report recommended approval of residential development because the scheme “would not materially effect the amenities of the neighbours or result in any detrimental impact on the street scene and would not significantly harm any interests of acknowledged importance.”
At the beginning of last year Alan Moon and Mark Hayball, of Beeline, told Warminster Town Council’s Planning Advisory Committee, of their future intentions for the company relocating. To read the minutes of that meeting click here.