July 2023
From Wiltshire Council’s Planning for Warminster – a guide (published in July 2023) to how the Local Plan Review (‘the Plan’), which will replace the Wiltshire Core Strategy, will affect the town over the coming years.
The Wiltshire Retail and Town Centres Study (WRTCS)4 regards Warminster’s town centre as having a unique position in that all main convenience goods stores are in and around the town centre, which in turn helps to drive foot fall in the town centre. It is concluded that there is capacity for 310sqm net additional comparison goods floorspace by 2025 and 207sqm net in 2030, and that this should ideally be centrally located to avoid attracting footfall away from the town centre.