Category: Gazetteer

A geographical dictionary providing reference information about places and place names in Warminster and other civil parishes in the surrounding area.

A36 Warminster Bypass ~ Heytesbury/Crockerton ~ Closure On The Night 1st/2nd August 2016

Monday 1st August 2016

The A36 Warminster Bypass will be closed tonight (Monday 1st August 2016) from 8.00 p.m. until tomorrow (Tuesday 2nd August 2016) at 8.00 a.m., between the Cotley Hill Roundabout at Heytesbury and the Bore Hill Roundabout at Crockerton. This is to allow surveying work to be carried out safely. Diversions will be in place.

The Wording Of Wiltshire Council’s Refusal Of The Planning Application Submitted By HPH Ltd., For 35 Houses On The Spurt Mead Watermeadow At Boreham, Warminster

Saturday 9th April 2016

Councillor Christopher Newbury, Chairman of the Western Area Planning Committee, has very kindly shared with dannyhowell.net the full wording of Wiltshire Council’s reasons for refusing the planning application submitted by HPH Ltd., for 35 houses on the Spurt Mead watermeadow at Boreham, Warminster.

“The site lies outside the limits of development defined for Warminster in the Wiltshire Core Strategy. In this location, the proposed development for residential purposes would conflict with Core Policy 2 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy which only allows residential development beyond these limits through a plan led process of a Site Allocations Development Plan and/or a Neighbourhood Plan. The proposal has not been brought forward through either of these means and therefore conflicts with the delivery strategy of the Wiltshire Core Strategy.

Furthermore, the proposal would result in the development of a site that is currently undeveloped countryside that forms part of the gap between the built-up area of Warminster and the nearby village of Bishopstrow. The Council considers it important to maintain this gap of undeveloped countryside to prevent the coalescence of the town with Bishopstrow, which was one of the objectives behind the setting of the town limits in this location when they were originally defined. The significant alteration in the character and appearance of this area of open countryside through the construction of this unplanned urban development would seriously erode the remaining gap between the town and village and would have an adverse impact on the character and appearance of the area. This would conflict with Core Policy 51 of the Wiltshire Core Strategy that seeks to maintain the separate identity of settlements. The Council considers that the adverse impact of the loss of a significant part of this gap and the change in the character and appearance of the area that would result from the development of this site significantly and demonstrably outweighs the benefits of the proposal.”

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