Friday 1st April 2011
Warminster Civic Trust, in its newsletter, issue number 33, April 2011, noted ~
“Yeates’ Field, which lies adjacent to Boreham Road, is owned by The National Trust but is currently leased to the Town Council. It provides a green buffer zone between the town’s residential area and Bishopstrow; its present use seems to be limited to dog walkers. Recent debate over the future of this area has been in the local news of late. Ideas for turning it into allotments along with suggestions that a small number of houses might be built on a corner of the land to fund necessary changes have all been aired although no substantial proposals have been put forward. It has prompted new ideas to be floated that the field should be turned into a community garden and orchard, thereby increasing its appeal to a much wider section of the community than at present. It is planned to debate these ideas during the open session after our AGM, and to ascertain how the Trust might assist.”