Category: About Warminster: Station Road

What Will Become Of The Police Club Building?

Friday 12th September 2025

The Police Club, behind the wall on the left as you access the Central Car Park off Station Road, Warminster. I took the photo on Thursday 4th December 2014.

Back in the late 80s/early 90s I was often asked to play skittles for the Warminster Carnival Committee Skittles Team (yes they were that desperate to make up the numbers) and we sometimes played some matches at the Police Club. The Carnival Committee’s home alley for skittles at that time was at Warminster Town Football Club. Allen Williams was always the best player in the Carnival Committee Skittles team in those days. Jane Bright was very competitive too.

So, the Police Club had a skittle alley. There was a snooker table in there too and I vaguely remember a small bar (don’t think we had the use of the bar). There’s a satellite dish visible on the building in the photo, so I guess there was a television available in more recent years. The chimney on the building suggests there may have been some decent heating.

Of course, police men and women would have frequented the club back in the day.

I wonder what will happen to this building now the new Police Station is at the Avenue, and the old police station site has now been redeveloped as Old Station Yard (planned as 6 houses, 2 duplex and 24 apartments)?

Looking Back At The Job Centre, Warminster

Thursday 11th September 2025

Danny Howell writes:
The Job Centre, at 28 Station Road, Warminster, photographed by me in July 1986. The windows feature adverts for the ‘Restart’ programme. To the left is the Kwik Save car park. The car parked by the Job Centre entrance to the left, is an Austin Metro (registration number B327 DHR). Behind the car can be seen a gap between the walls of the Kwik Save supermarket and the Job Centre, along which, if you were lean enough, you could get through to the Gateway supermarket customer car park behind the Job Centre.

The building which was the Job Centre, in more recent years, has been in the hands of the Avenue Surgery. Warminster folks, older than me, will recall that back in the 1940s and 1950s this building was Ossie Coward’s furniture shop. My parents, when they first set up home together, got their furniture from Ossie Coward. I’ve got a feeling that he lived in or was from Sutton Veny, but not sure about that. And I am pleased to say I have a photograph (a black and white one of course) of Ossie Coward’s furniture shop in my archive of collected old photographs.

Old Station Yard, Warminster ~ Regeneration Of Former Police Station

Thursday 30th March 2023

From the Gainsborough Group website:

Old Station Yard, Station Road, Warminster, BA12 9BR.

The regeneration of this iconic former Police Station will create 32 luxury homes comprising of 6 houses, 2 duplex and 24 apartments.

Old Station Yard will be a buzzing hub of activity that breathes new life into the town centre. This vibrant lifestyle destination is located in the heart of Warminster town centre, conveniently nearby the range of leisure and retail facilities this thriving town has to offer.

Carefully designed by architects Wotton Donoghue, these homes will offer the very best in luxury living, blending meticulously restored traditional features with a contemporary finish.

These homes will be built to a high specification from soft-close kitchen furniture with a comprehensive selection of built-in appliances, quartz worktops, bespoke wardrobes and luxury LVT throughout. A combined authentic and contemporary feel offering privacy and exclusivity. Enjoy quintessential living in a gated setting with outside space and private allocated parking.

All residents of Old Station Yard will benefit from a private and secure gated residence with allocated parking spaces. EVCP’s (Electric Vehicle Charging Points) will be installed as standard and discrete CCTV will be installed overlooking the parking areas to ensure safety.

Available for private rent from March 2023!

Gainsborough Group, Western Farm, 32 Taunton Road, Ashcott, Pedwell, Somerset, TA7 9BG. Telephone 01225 956769
www.thegainsboroughgroup.co.uk/developments/old-station-yard/

Warminster Town Council To Approach Wiltshire Council With A CAT Request For The Police Station, Station Road, Warminster

Monday 8th March 2021

From the minutes of a meeting of the online Finance and Audit Committee of Warminster Town Council, held on Monday 8th March 2021.

In attendance:
Warminster Town Council members: Cllrs Philip Keeble and Paul Macfarlane. Officers: Fiona Fox (Town Clerk and RFO), Judith Halls (Office Manager). Online attendees: 3.

FA/20/080 Police Station
A background report had been received by members with their agenda. The police station on Station Road, was currently for sale, an offer had been received ‘subject to contract’. It was noted that if WTC were to register the police station under the CAT process, it would give the council time to consider the finances in relation to a purchase.

Members noted their disappointment that despite meetings with the police over the past four years regarding the regeneration programme, at which the future of the police station was discussed, the council had not been given a timely opportunity to respond to the sale. In addition, a member noted that WTC had followed the correct committee procedures, and in doing so, had been thwarted.

Members added that Town Development, the referring committee, had been concerned over the cost of such a purchase and that if WTC were serious purchasers, how would this be funded. It was explained that if a property is registered under CAT, it cannot be sold, by law, for six months, thus giving interest community groups time to ascertain the value of the site and then to explore the financial implications. Registering a CAT would be the first step.

Members resolved to recommend to Full Council that WTC approach Wiltshire Council with a CAT request.

Proposed: Cllr Nicklin, Seconded: Cllr Jefferies, Voting: unanimous.

No Waiting At Chapel Street, Deverill Road And Station Road, Warminster

Friday 15th June 2018

WILTSHIRE COUNCIL
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ACT 2004
THE COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE (WARMINSTER) (PROHIBITION AND RESTRICTION OF WAITING, TAXI RANK CLEARWAYS AND ON STREET PARKING) CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2017 (AMENDMENT NO.3) ORDER 2018
(Previously advertised as Order 2013 (Amendment No.6) Order 2017)
THE COUNTY OF WILTSHIRE (WARMINSTER) (PROHIBITION AND RESTRICTION OF WAITING, TAXI RANK CLEARWAYS AND ON STREET PARKING) CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2017 (AMENDMENT NO.4) ORDER 2018

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on 5th June 2018 Wiltshire Council made the above mentioned Order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (“the Act of 1984”) and the Traffic Management Act 2004 to amend the following restrictions in the Warminster Consolidation Order 2017 by revoking Map Schedule No. GO29 dated 20th September 2017 and replacing it by the insertion of Map Schedule No. GO29 dated 18th June 2018 the effect of which will be to introduce No Waiting at any time on the following lengths of roads:

Chapel Street – both sides – from its junction with Deverill Road for a distance of 14 metres in a westerly direction;

Deverill Road – west side – from a point 15 metres north of its junction with Chapel Street to a point 33 metres south of that junction.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT on 29th September 2017 Wiltshire Council made The County of Wiltshire (Warminster) (Prohibition and Restriction of Waiting, Taxi Rank Clearways and On Street Parking) Consolidation Order 2017 which made a number of additions and amendments to parking restrictions in Warminster. Those amendments were set out on the plans attached to that Order. Due to an administrative error the restrictions shown on Map Schedule No. GK30 did not reflect the amendments set out in the Order and therefore Map Schedule No. GK30 dated 11th June 2018 is hereby revoked and replaced with revised Map Schedule No. GK30 dated 18th June 2018 the effect of which is introducing Parking Monday to Saturday 8am – 6pm, 2 hours No return within 2 hours on the following length of road:
Station Road – north west side – from a point 88 metres north east of its junction with Fairfield Road for a distance of 42 metres in a north easterly direction.

A copy of the Orders and plans may be inspected at the offices of Wiltshire Council, County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge during normal office hours.

Any person aggrieved by the Orders and desiring to question the validity of the Orders or of any provision contained in the Orders on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the relevant Section of the Act of 1984 or on the grounds that any requirement of that Section or of Part III of Schedule 9 of the Act of 1984 or any regulation made under the said Schedule, has not been complied with in relation to the Orders may, within six weeks of the date on which the Orders were made, make application for the purpose to the High Court.

The Orders will come into operation on 18th June 2018.
Sustainable Transport Group, County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge BA14 8JN
15th June 2018

Waitrose Has Applied To Install Automatic Number Plate Recognition Cameras At The Entrance To Its Station Road Car Park, Warminster

Thursday 8th March 2018

Waitrose has applied to install automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras at the entrance to its Station Road Car Park, Warminster, which will record the time and identity of all vehicles entering the car park. Former Warminster Town Councillor and former Wiltshire Councillor, Steve Dancey, who shops on a daily basis at Waitrose, Warminster, has already voiced his disgust at the application, calling it a “sinister and unnecessary step.” Writing on the Vision For Warminster website, Mr Dancey says: “Bringing in such cameras can only mean that the partnership is looking to tighten its control of the parking regime here and in doing so they will further harm the vitality of the town centre. Installing cameras here will reduce the propensity of shoppers to head into town in addition to shopping in Waitrose. Shoppers will be scared of getting a ticket.” He suggests that Waitrose would be far better advised to look at improving pedestrian safety at the entrance to the car park by installing adequate signs to tell motorists that pedestrians have right of way on the Station Road pavement. You can read Mr Dancey’s comments by clicking on http://www.visionforwarminster.co.uk/news_105390.html and reading the Hot Topics section.