Category: Lob In The Landscape

Information and pictures of mostly rural topics and activities.

EBRAG Update ~ Expressing Concern Over Residential Development Of Home Farm, Boreham, Warminster

Friday 22nd February 2013

Wiltshire Core Strategy Pre-Hearing Meeting, 28th February 2013

At the first East Boreham Residents’ Action Group (EBRAG) General Meeting, held in St. John’s Church, in November 2012, the community was encouraged to write to Wiltshire Council (WC), expressing concern over residential development of Home Farm and offering support for the future Warminster development plans written by WC.

These plans are called the Core Strategy and exclude Home Farm’s land from future development, suggesting instead that all development should occur to the west of town in the area previously agreed.

In the next few months the Core Strategy will be reviewed by a Planning Inspector, who will examine the content and make a judgement, probably at the end of the year, on whether the plans should be adopted.

All those who wrote to WC should have received a letter of email from WC stating that the Wiltshire Core Strategy Pre-Hearing Meeting will take place on 28th February 2013 at the Civic Centre, Trowbridge. At this meeting, the inspector will explain the examination procedure and the content of the subsequent hearings. It has been brought to the attention of EBRAG that there is some understandable confusion amongst those who have received this letter as to what their role is and whether they should attend.

To clarify: EBRAG committee members plan to attend this meeting in order to monitor what format the examination will take, to listen to the inspector’s view on possible issues for future developments in Warminster and any arguments against the strategy being put forward. This is purely a procedural meeting and the public, although very welcome to attend, will only be allowed to ask questions relating to the procedure for the enquiry and overall Core Strategy issues to be examined. Therefore, unless members of the community have a genuine interest, they should not feel obliged to attend this meeting.

The formal hearings on the Core Strategy for Warminster will take place some time during May / June 2013 and it is at this point that EBRAG may make formal representations to the examination. At this meeting members of the community are encouraged to attend and EBRAG will advise details beforehand of dates and venues. 

Following next Thursday’s pre-hearing meeting, EBRAG will distribute another newsletter with more detailed information on what, if any, the issues for Warminster are and all future relevant dates, including the examination on the website: www.ebrag.org.uk

An Enclosure Ditch On Scratchbury Hill

Sunday 17th February 2013

The ancient ditch that forms part of an enclosure on Scratchbury Hill, Norton Bavant, as seen from the eastern rampart. The view looks toward the burial mound on the southern crest of the hill. Photograph taken by Danny Howell on Sunday 17th February 2013.

From A Rampart To A Burial Mound On Scratchbury Hill

Sunday 17th February 2013

 The view west from the top rampart on the southern side of Scratchbury Hill, Norton Bavant, showing the round barrow on the southern crest of Scratchbury. Photograph taken by Danny Howell on Sunday 17th February 2013.

Great British Railway Journeys ~ Michael Portillo Helps Clean Westbury White Horse

Monday 28th January 2013

Michael Portillo, in one of his Great British Railway Journeys, shown on BBC2 at 6.30 p.m. today, travelled from Paddington to Warminster, in the first of five stages that will take him to Newton Abbot. His first port of call in Wiltshire was at Westbury.

Michael Portillo got off the train
at Westbury Railway Station.

Michael made his way up to Westbury White Horse,
a chalk figure carved in the escarpment
near the Bratton Castle Iron Age hill fort.

He was told by local people that the horse
commemorates the Battle of Ethandune
but its origins are obscure.

This lady said she lived in one of the villages
and she told Michael some information
about the horse.

Michael was also told how the horse used
to be cleaned in the past.

Michael abseiled down the monument
to help with the latest clean-up.

Afterwards, Michael caught a train to Warminster,
where he visited the Pound Street Malthouse.

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