Planning History

The Wiltshire Core Strategy aims to deliver 1,920 new homes at Warminster by 2026.  Policies 2 and 31 of the Strategy allocate land at West of Warminster for mixed-use development.

As part of this, in June 2016, planning permission was granted for the Master Plan Application (16/01323/MAS) for West Warminster Urban Extension (WWUE), designed to deliver 1,550 dwellings and 6 hectares of employment land.

The proposed development at Tascroft Rise Phase 4 is part of this plan (see below the approved Masterplan). The site - outlined in red - is identified as residential development with an area of landscape/buffer/green space to the western boundary.

It is adjacent to several planning applications, where permission and construction for housing is well underway, including those submitted by Redrow for previous phases of Tascroft Rise:

o   Phase 1 & 2 - Development of 203 residential dwellings (LPA ref: 14/06562/FUL)

o   Phase 3 – Development of 46 residential dwellings (LPA ref: 19/09428/FUL)

Redrow actively engaged with Wiltshire Council in April 2021 ahead of creating our proposals for this new phase. This advice confirmed that the principle of development had already been established by Policy 31 of the Adopted Core Strategy and the subsequent masterplan approval.

A number of detailed technical considerations have been highlighted and should be addressed as part of this planning application (such as access, design, drainage and the environment). The advice also confirmed the need for a legal agreement to secure contributions to local infrastructure, as well as setting out the information necessary for the Council to validate the application.

The feedback received from the Local Planning Authority has been incorporated into the proposals on which we are now consulting.

Wiltshire Council’s Adopted Core Strategy →