Malmesbury Mayor Cllr Campbell Ritchie leads the charge to protect neighbourhood plans Wiltshire Council will meet with representatives from over 30 parish and town councils to discuss how to protect neighbourhood planning in the county. Wiltshire Area Localism and Planning Group was formed to seek to protect their neighbourhood plans from developers using the fact the county does not have a demonstrable five-year plan for housing. A meeting between the group and cabinet member for planning, Toby Sturgis and the corporate director for place & environment, Sam Fox is due to take place next week.
Mayor of Malmesbury Campbell Ritchie (left) and Wiltshire Councillor of Malmesbury Gavin Grant
RESIDENTS are being urged to help stop plans for 1,000 new homes in the Malmesbury area. Wiltshire councillor for the town, Gavin Grant, has written to residents in 11 areas cited for new housing developments urging them to speak out. Wiltshire Council is currently consulting on 11 potential sites in and around Malmesbury that could take new houses. If all were developed another 1,000 houses would be built. In his letter Councillor Grant says residents must speak out to oppose these plans before the end of the Wiltshire Council consultation on Tuesday, March 9. Explaining why he had written his letter, Cllr Grant said: “Malmesbury is a special and beautiful place. There are only a few days left to speak up to tell Wiltshire Council that we want to keep it that way.”
Malmesbury Mayor Cllr Campbell Ritchie leads the charge to protect neighbourhood plans A Wiltshire Council will meet with representatives from over 30 parish and town councils to discuss how to protect neighbourhood planning in the county. Wiltshire Area Localism and Planning Group was formed to seek to protect their neighbourhood plans from developers using the fact the county does not have a demonstrable five-year plan for housing. A meeting between the group and cabinet member for planning, Toby Sturgis and the corporate director for place & environment, Sam Fox is due to take place next week. Mayor of Malmesbury Campbell Ritchie (left) and Wiltshire Councillor or Malmesbury Gavin Grant have launched a last ditch appeal to save the town’s last bank branch
Wiltshire building 140 per cent of housing numbers Photo: Joe Giddens/PA Wire Wiltshire is building more houses than needed, official figures reveal. Countryside charity CPRE is preparing to submit evidence to show the number of houses proposed under the Wiltshire Local Plan is a serious over-estimation. According to analysis of the Housing Delivery Test (2020) by the Wiltshire branch of the charity, the county has delivered 140 per cent of its target. It says that between 2017/18 and 2019/20 Wiltshire built 40 per cent more houses than was required of it. During this period, the report says Wiltshire was required to built of 5,506 new homes but constructed 7,720.
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