Wiltshire Council’s Strategic Planning Committee will be considering the Crown Estate’s outline planning application for up to 175 new homes and a hotel on farming land west of Salisbury Road during its meeting at County Hall in Trowbridge on Wednesday, 10 February – starting at 10.30am.
Anyone wanting to attend the meeting and object to the application can contact Sara Daws – saraofmarlb@aol.com
In November the Town Council’s Planning Committee objected to the revised plans on the grounds that the increase in traffic through the town that the development would produce had not been properly considered.
If the Crown Estate win outline planning permission, they will sell the site onto a developer who will then put their own design for the development in to Wiltshire Council for full planning permission. These houses feature strongly in Wiltshire’s Core Strategy requirement for the number of new homes to be built in Marlborough by 2026.
Papers lodged with the application raise a variety of other objections and issues including Thames Water’s anxieties about proper protection for the water supply for the town much of which is collected on the land to be built over.
Other issues include the reliability of the evidence attached to the application about its siting in relation to the World Heritage Site.
There are also some heavy financial impositions likely to be put onto the eventual developers of the site including money to increase the number of the town’s secondary school places.
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