Our vision for a beautiful and green new neighbourhood could deliver:

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• Around 1,300 new homes.

• A place with a real heart, incorporating homes, a local centre with shops and a village green.

• 420-place Primary School with all-through ages 4-11 provision.

• Pre-School facilities (if required).

• Generous new open space including parkland, greenways, allotments, village greens and sports pitches.

• Play and other facilities (such as pump track) suitable for teenagers, and medium/smaller play facilities spread throughout the site for older and younger children including toddlers.

• Around 3 hectares of E Class land either side of the A361 (envisaged as indoor leisure and food retail).

• The landscaping of the land between the A361 and A350 as Country Park, to function as Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space (SANG) to deflect trips away from ecologically sensitive woodland.

• Biodiversity mitigation and enhancement, notably for Bechstein’s Bats.

• Sustainable Urban Drainage to ensure an overall reduction in surface water run-off compared with the existing arrangements, integrated into the built environment and areas of public open space that can establish features for the development.

• Walking and cycling improvements to local network offering links to Trowbridge and Hilperton.

• Off-site highway upgrades as required.

• All associated supporting infrastructure.

 

The planning application is to be submitted in ‘Outline’ form, meaning that this will establish the principle of development, together with broad parameters as to how development would ultimately come forward, including land use and building heights.

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Although the finer details of the Layout, Landscaping, Scale and Appearance of the development – known as the ‘reserved matters’ – would, as the name suggests, be held back for later determination, precise details of vehicular access points to the site will be secured at this stage as these tend to need an elevated degree of planning scrutiny.

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Once submitted to the Local Planning Authority, Wiltshire Council, with a target of late Summer 2026 in this respect, further formal consultation will be undertaken with statutory consultees, other stakeholders and the wider public to inform the Council’s consideration of the application.

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It is anticipated that a positive determination would include securing a strategic Design Code for the final form of development, using planning conditions to refine the parameters presented at Outline stage prior to the consideration of an application (or applications) for the approval of the reserved matters, which would likewise be subject to the same statutory public consultation.