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 WRTCS (The Wiltshire Retail and Town Centres Study) echoes some of the content of the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan in that parts of the town centre would benefit from qualitative improvements, including Three Horseshoes Walk and the central car park, and there may also be opportunities over the plan
period to improve linkages through the central area. The neighbourhood plan identifies the central car park as an opportunity area for regeneration, with potential uses including possible new retail units, improvements to the public realm and re-organisation of existing parking arrangements, a new bus/ coach interchange, relocation of the library and relocation of the weekly market. The WRTCS confirms that the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan’s proposal for the central car park is logical, also recognising assessment of retail needs does
not indicate a requirement for a significant level of new net additional retail floorspace in Warminster. Such proposals would be dependent on securing the necessary enabling funding.