Category: About Warminster: Middleton Close

Getting A Foot On The Home Ownership Ladder ~ Middleton Close, Warminster

Tuesday 23rd January 1990

Middleton Close, Warminster, was built on allotment land (bought from West Wiltshire Holdings Ltd., a district-council owned company) on the west side of Pound Street Hollow, and was completed in March 1989.

The development of 36 two and three-bedroom houses was intended as a scheme to enable low-income couples on the council house waiting list to get a foot on the home ownership ladder. After living in the homes for two years, making monthly “holding” payments, people will have the option of buying their homes at knock-down prices.

A three-bedroom house will cost £40,700 and a two-bedroom house will cost £34,200.

Management Services Ltd., of Gloucester (managing agent of the Malvern Housing Association Ltd.) collect monies for the Bradford & Bingley Building Society who financed the development which was designed and built by Westbury Partnership Homes of Churchdown, Gloucestershire.

Middleton Close, Warminster, Built On Former Pound Street Allotments

Friday 27th October 1989

“New residential estates (in Warminster) have been completed, including . . . Middleton Close which now occupies the former Pound Street allotments.”

~ stated by Danny Howell in a lecture “Changing Faces Of Warminster” which he gave at the Athenaeum, Warminster, during October 1989.

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