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Warminster Town Council Are To Hold A Meeting To Hear The Public’s Views About A Planning Application For Housing At Folly Farm

Tuesday 29th October 2019

A meeting to discuss new housing at Folly Farm Site (Planning Application 19/09428/FUL)

Warminster Town Council are being consulted on the planning application for the use of the Folly Farm site for new housing. Access to the new housing would be from the existing Redrow development site.

Warminster Town Councillors have already met with Redrow’s agents to discuss the plans, and Town Councillors have found nothing in the planning application that would prevent this extension of the existing site from going ahead.

However, Town Councillors would like to hear views from members of the public about how they think the first Redrow site performed and whether there are any issues that should be considered for phase 2.

Town Councillors will be holding a special meeting on Monday 11th November 2019, at 6.00 p.m., at the Civic Centre in Warminster.

Town Councillors would welcome residents’ feedback at this meeting, especially those from St Andrews Road, Broxburn Road and Thornhill Road.

The special meeting will be followed by a meeting of the Town Council’s Planning Advisory Committee at 7.00 p.m. (in the same venue). Town Councillors will then be able to pass on their comments about the application to Wiltshire Council.

Full details of the planning application can be found on the Wiltshire Council Website http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/ by searching for planning application number: 19/09428/FUL.

Town Councillor contact details can be found on the Warminster Town Council Website.

http://www.warminster-tc.gov.uk/contacts/councillors.php

FOI ~ Purpose Is To Establish What Land Highways England Owns At The A36 Warminster Bypass At The Point It Crosses Cannimore Road, And Then Gain Easement Over The Land To Cannimore Farm

Thursday 27th June 2019

Mark Day has made this Freedom of Information request to National Highways Limited –

Dear Highways England Company Limited,
I would like to establish what land is owned by Highways England at the point the A36 Warminster bypass crosses the bridleway known and marked on UK OS maps as ‘Cannimore Road’. Cannimore Road is also known as Warminster 65. The underpass is at British National Grid ST858412.

1. I am trying to establish how much land under the A36 bypass ( a major tunnel) is owned by Highways England. On the ground it would appear that Highways England owns the land immediately under the bypass. Secondly, Highways England would need to have legal access to the underpass for maintenance reasons. What legal access and do Highways England have to their underpass, and do they own it? What evidence is there to support this ownership and can it be shared with me?

2. There is a concrete road from Folly Lane, Warminster, to Cannimore Road, which appears to have been built when the bypass was created, which suggests that the Highways Agency would own the concrete road as well as the land under the bypass. Do Highways England own the concrete track from Folly Lane to Cannimore Road, known as Warminster 63?

3. Would Highways England be prepared to grant easement/vehicular rights of way to Cannimore Farm over their land?

Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Day.

The Brutish Mentality Of People Who Shoot Little Birds And Other Animals For “Sport”

Sunday 16th June 2019

Des Brittain, of Warminster, writes –

I have two lovely friends recently moved to Warminster and their whole life evolves round shooting. I know it’s pointless trying to convince them of the sanctity of all life so we just don’t talk shooting talk. They know the people who run the Deverill Shoot. I just don’t understand the brutish mentality of people who shoot little birds and other animals for “sport”.

Sourced From Portugal To Be Shot At Brixton Deverill

Sunday 16th June 2019

A tweet on the Hunt Saboteurs Association (the only organisation that works directly in the field to protect wildlife from hunters) twitter page says: “This one day old partridge was delivered by Meadow Game, a hatchery who source their birds from Portuguese battery farms, to rearing sheds just fields away from “one of the UK’s top ten shoots’, the Brixton Deverill Shoot [near Warminster], where she will likely be shot.”

Read about this on:
www.huntsabs.org.uk/…/654-portuguese-factory…

Death And Funeral Of Graham Roger Few Of Longbridge Deverill

Graham Roger Few. Died suddenly at home on the 5th of May 2019. Graham aged 42 of Longbridge Deverill. A very much loved and loving husband; daddy, son, brother, and very good friend to many who will always be deeply missed and loved. The funeral service will be held on Tuesday the 11th of June 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in the church of St Peter and Paul at Longbridge Deverill. Please wear bright colours, and Graham’s fellow Saints’ fans please feel free to wear Southampton FC shirts to celebrate his love of the team. Family flowers only, but any donations can be made to either ‘The British Heart Foundation’ or the ‘Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance’ via: L C Hill and Son, Funeral Directors, Water Street, Mere, Warminster BA12 6DZ.

Warminster U3A – Geology

The Warminster U3A Newsletter, May 2019, includes the following report by Frank Lowe:

Geology Group
It was a beautiful winter’s afternoon on our first field trip of the year in January. We went near the confluence of the Rivers Frome and Mells, just north of Frome, to see the marked difference between the characters of the two streams; the Frome being slow, sluggish and muddy, whilst the Mells was fast flowing and clear. We pondered why this should be and how they came to be flowing in the directions they do.

The weather for our February meeting was glorious and we looked at the many sources of the river Frome, starting at Maiden Bradley and then in and around Witham Friary.

In March we had a full day trip on another lovely day on the Mendip Hills, starting with a general overview of the geology at Beacon Hill. Then we went to the old silver and lead workings at Charterhouse, first mined by the Romans. This was followed by our returning to the recent theme of rivers, considering the various ways in which water flows off the hills, by looking at cave entrances, sinks and rises.

The group is not full, but if you wish to join us you need to be reasonably mobile because all our meetings are in the field, and whilst we do not usually walk any great distances we often find ourselves walking over rough ground or scrambling up and down steep slopes or over large rocks, sometimes inelegantly on our backsides!

Historic England Say There Is No Acceptable Layout For 100 Houses At Home Farm, Boreham, Warminster

Sunday 14th April 2019

Historic England say there is no layout acceptable for development of 100 houses on land east of the Dene (Home Farm) Boreham, Warminster, due to historic assets in and around the area. These assets include a neolithic flint factory.

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/17572116.historic-england-object-to-housing-plan/?ref=rss