Category: Community (Warminster)

Tuesday 24th March 2026

From the Facebook page of EBBRAG:

This photo shows the wonderful view from Battlesbury Hill, looking south to Home Farm, and Bishopstrow and beyond. It is a green and pleasant scene many of us are familiar with and love.

If housing ever fills the fields of Home Farm, this view will be irreversibly changed forever. That would be a disaster for people and wildlife and would wreck heritage and archaeology. And the consequences of unsustainable building include flooding risk, pollution of the River Wylye, more problems because infrastructure needs not being met, the loss of green open space, etc., etc.

These are some of the reasons why EBBRAG have been fighting to get the Home Farm housing allocation removed from the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan 2.

EBBRAG has been tremendously spurred on by the great support of many people, not only those living at Boreham and Bishopstrow, but from all parts of Warminster, who recognise it for the beautiful countryside it is and for the health and other benefits the outdoor experience brings. And there has been further support from folks who come here especially to holiday, walk, ride and enjoy in many ways what is undoubtedly a stunning landscape.

EBBRAG thanks you all for your great support, signing letters, writing to make your feelings known, helping us canvas, filling out surveys, contributing to technical and conservation reports, and donating to the fighting fund. The EBBRAG committee appreciates all of this, more than words can say. We are also moved by the messages of thanks now coming in – EBBRAG supporters, you are the best!

Here’s just three of the messages we have received via email and Facebook:

Please pass on my thanks to all EBBRAG committee members for doing all this amazing research, canvassing, surveys and technical report writing on our behalf. I only hope it is successful. – J.S.

Huge thanks to you all for working so hard for our community, you have done an amazing job, let’s hope that it is all listened to. – C.S.

Thank you all for all your hard work so far. I for one very much appreciate it. – F.G.

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Tuesday 24th March 2026

A message from EBBRAG:

The Warminster Neighbourhood Plan 2 (NP2) Consultation Survey (Regulation 14) closed at midnight last night (23rd March). It seems the Town Council had a poor response to their consultation.

EBBRAG have been extremely busy during the consultation period and our hard work has been positive and uplifting.

EBBRAG has submitted approximately 415 letters of opposition to the Town Council, signed at Three Horseshoes Walk on 7 and 14 March 2026. For members of the EBBRAG committee, it was very moving to engage with so many Warminster residents who share the same concerns.

The EBBRAG campaign also generated around 30 responses from residents outside the town boundary who were shopping, visiting friends and family, or simply visiting Warminster. Many were from Westbury, citing the lack of shops in their town, and the furthest respondent came from Canterbury while visiting family. All, however, shared similar concerns, as demonstrated by the overwhelming response over two days, with several hours of engagement each day.

The topics covered (with the number of submissions per letter) were:

• Compliance with national flood risk policy 11
• Infrastructure capacity to support proposed housing growth 91
• Protection of heritage setting and protected views 43
• Nutrient neutrality and protection of the River Wylye chalk stream 26
• General conformity with the Wiltshire Core Strategy 6
• Archaeological and historic landscape significance 22
• Safe and suitable highway access 10
• Multiple concerns (covering the above in one letter) 206
• The EBBRAG open letter on the website 0

On your behalf, the EBBRAG committee has also submitted a 32-page technical response to the draft NP2, including an executive summary. These documents are not intended for publication; however, if any resident would like a copy, please contact info@ebbrag.com

The open letter on the EBBRAG website has also been submitted on your behalf.

Finally, additional submissions from Boreham Road residents and Bishopstrow Court residents have also been made, all challenging the draft NP2.

We now await the Council’s review of the comments and to see how the draft NP2 will be amended or not before being forwarded to Wiltshire Council for further consideration.

Regards,
EBBRAG.

info@ebbrag.com

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Monday 23rd March 2026

A message from EBBRAG to all its supporters:

Just a reminder that the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan 2 (NP2) Consultation Survey (Regulation 14) closes at midnight today. If you have not yet completed it, please do so, ensuring you include the phrase: Withdraw Home Farm from Site Selection. You do not have to answer every question, and we appreciate that it is a difficult survey to complete. However, provided you include that phrase in the appropriate question, that will suffice.

Regards,
EBBRAG.

www.ebbrag.com

info@ebbrag.com

Sunday 15th March 2026

From the EBBRAG website:

Al Wright (on behalf of EBBRAG) is conducting a survey, gathering evidence to protect Home Farm, Boreham, Warminster as a Local Green Space and Green Corridor. He will be out and about, as always, along the public footpaths, bridleways and lanes in the Home Farm area (and also on the Southern Range Road below Battlesbury) up until 21st March, with survey forms, to give everyone the opportunity to make their views known.

If you don’t know him already, you will recognise him as the tall guy with a bushy beard, with a rucksack on his back, and usually with a camera in hand, photographing the landscape and wildlife. If you’re not outdoors enjoying the Home Farm area and unable to see Al, but would still like to take part in this important survey, you can complete the survey online and submit it to via EBBRAG. 

The survey results will be presented to Warminster Town Council, for the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan Consultation, with the objective of making people’s views known in regard to having Home Farm removed from site selection and proposing that Home Farm be added to the Local Green Spaces for Warminster.

The survey can be found on the EBBRAG website at https://www.ebbrag.com/home-farm-community-value-survey/

Closing date for this online survey is 20th March, so they can be printed out and submitted to the Town Council before the Neighbourhood Plan Consultation closing date of 23rd March.

Also to remind you that on the same EBBRAG website under a Letter, there is an open EBBRAG letter (petition) to Warminster Town Council we would like you to sign. This will be handed in before 23 March 2026, with all the signatures, while there has been a medium response so far EBBRAG needs you all to sign.

Finally, we understand the response on the Warminster Town Council draft Neighbourhood Plan 2 Survey is poor. Please make sure you add up to 10 friends, relatives, neighbours, etc., complete it by midnight on the 23 March 2026. Note you do not need to answer every question but it is vital you include the phrase:

 Remove Home Farm from site selection in the draft Warminster Neighbourhood Plan.

Thank you for membership of EBBRAG.

Regards EBBRAG Administrator.