Thursday 25th August 2016
A crane at the former Beeline Coach Depot
(where residential development has begun),
Bishopstrow Road, Warminster.
Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Thursday 25th August 2016.
Friday 15th June 2012
Above: An architect’s visual impression of what the proposed housing would look like, at Bishopstrow Road, Warminster, when the Beeline Coach Depot (which currently occupies the site) is redeveloped. The northern of the two bridges over the divided River Wylye is in the foreground (bridge wall on the left).Â
Beeline (R&R Coaches) have been granted planning permission by Wiltshire Council for their proposed residential development at their coach depot at Bishopstrow Road, near Boreham Crossroads, on the eastern side of Warminster.
Beeline, who have been in business since 1971, can now proceed with demolishing the buildings on the site (which are used as offices and for housing coaches), making way for a small mix of houses. A single four bedroom house, four three-bedroom houses, and four other three-bedroom houses in a terrace, plus three car barns, are destined to occupy the site which is situated in an island of the River Wylye, east of Boreham Mill.
The area has been prone to flooding but the Environment Agency have informed the Council that they are satisfied with Beeline’s plans to minimise any possible problems of this nature.
The site is outside that covered by the Warminster Town Plan but a planning report recommended approval of residential development because the scheme “would not materially effect the amenities of the neighbours or result in any detrimental impact on the street scene and would not significantly harm any interests of acknowledged importance.”
At the beginning of last year Alan Moon and Mark Hayball, of Beeline, told Warminster Town Council’s Planning Advisory Committee, of their future intentions for the company relocating. To read the minutes of that meeting click here.
Monday 24th January 2011
Beeline (R&R Coaches) have made known to Warminster Town Council their need to relocate their coach depot from Bishopstrow Road, Boreham, to the Warminster Business Park, off Bath Road, Warminster.Â
Alan Moon and Mark Hayball, of Beeline, attended a meeting of the Warminster Town Council’s Planning Advisory Committee, on Monday 24th January 2011. The meeting was chaired by Councillor Martin Baker. Present were Councillors Veronica Burden, Sue Fraser, Tony Nicklin, Pip Ridout and Robert Fryer.Â
The minutes of the meeting state: Alan Moon told the Members that the Beeline Coaches’ site had planning permission for industrial uses A2/B1. This site is now no longer big enough for Beeline Coaches’ needs and they wish to move to one more suitable still within Warminster Town. The new site would be on the Warminster Business Park which would be sufficient for their needs. Common sense indicates that the old site would be more appropriate for housing. Beeline Coaches need the funding from the old site to achieve the proposed new one and asked if Warminster Town Council would support an application for housing on this site. If this proposed move were to go ahead there would be additional employment opportunities within the town.
Mark Hayball told the Members that Beeline Coaches are the principle contractor in the town and at the present time they are turning away work. If the proposed move went ahead there is the possibility of employing more drivers and ancillary staff and the work would be sourced locally.
The present site originally supported 10 coaches, now there are 40, and everyday 30 coaches leave the depot 4 times a day travelling though the village and town. The move to Warminster Business Park would mean the coaches can go straight on to the by-pass, which would be better for all concerned.Â
Councillor Baker reinstated Standing Orders at 7.23 p.m.
Councillor Baker thanked Alan Moon and Mark Hayball for their input and he wholeheartedly supported the proposal but said that Warminster Town Council cannot deliberate the proposed development until the plans have been submitted.
Councillor Nicklin proposed that the Council support a future application for housing on the existing Beeline Coaches site, Councillor Ridout seconded, voting unanimous in favour.
