Sunday 28th February 2016
Direction sign for Flers Court,
Coppice Close and Were Court,
on the corner of Sambourne Road
and the access road to the
Western Car Park, Warminster.
Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Sunday 28th February 2016.
Friday 12th June 2015
A horseshoe on the back garden gate
at 6 Flers Court, Warminster.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Friday 12th June 2015.
Friday 10th May 2013
Flers Court, Warminster.
A tree in blossom at Flers Court.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Friday 10th May 2013.
Two photographs of Flers Court,
off the Western Car Park, Warminster,
taken by Danny Howell
on Thursday 8th November 2012.
Flers Court, Warminster, the sheltered-housing estate of 12 one-bedroom flats and 12 two-bedroom bungalows adjacent the Western Car Park, was officially opened on Friday 21 March 1986.
The flats were for sale from £24,171, and the bungalows from £29,734, available on a 99 year renewable lease via West Wiltshire District Council who nominated the buyers.
A service charge of £54 a month, for the first year, covered the costs of buildings insurance, day-to-day maintenance, central heating maintenance, emergency alarms maintenance, painting of external components, periodic window cleaning, cleaning of communal areas, outside lighting, care of gardens and grounds, and other management services including the costs of a resident warden.
The first warden was Diane Edwards, previously the warden at Rowley Place, Melksham.
Flers Court was built as part of a continuing joint venture between Rendell Partnership Developments (a member of the Lovell Group), and West Wiltshire District Council (the owners of the land and providers of the management and warden services).
The first residents of Flers Court, who moved in on Wednesday 26 March 1986, were 63 year old Eileen and 66 year old Sidney.
Friday 21st March 1986
Flers Court, a cul-de-sac, adjacent the Western Car Park, off Sambourne Road, Warminster, BA12 9NJ, was completed in 1986. Officially opened Friday 21st March 1986). Comprising 24 properties: 12 one-bedroom flats and 12 two-bedroom bungalows, with residents’ lounge, residents’ laundry and guest facilities. Leasehold. Named after Warminster’s twin town of Flers in the Orne department, Normandy region, north-western France.
Warminster Journal, Friday 19 March 1982, makes reference to:
Warminster Town Council Planning Advisory Committee opposed outline plans by West Wiltshire District Council for a development of old-persons’ bungalows on the south west side of the Western Car Park.
