Danny Howell, who knows the area particularly well, shares some of his knowledge and observations concerning Boreham and Bishopstrow, and makes some salient points why irreversible development on Home Farm must be prevented.
The Unique Landscape Setting
Boreham is not just another part of the town Warminster. It used to be a separate hamlet with its own manor and squire, a church and a school, a pub, two shops, two farms: Boreham Farm and Home Farm, with a scattering of quaint cottages, and places to work which included a water mill, wagon works, a smithy, a quarry, and everything else that made it fairly self-contained. Although the workplaces, the pub and the shops are gone, Boreham remains virtually unspoilt, and distinctly village-like today, with its old houses and cottages (mostly of rubble stone or local brick) complete with matching old rubble stone boundary walls. Near Boreham Crossroads is a thatched property, one of only two properties that are roofed this way in Warminster today.
An important and desirable part of the parish of Boreham is truly rural, comprising farmland, water meadows, beech woodlands, and quiet lanes and footpaths, between the riparian south and Salisbury Plain to the north. All is watched over by the Iron Age hill fort of Battlesbury (23 acres). Several ancient droving roads criss-cross the parish. One of these droves came down the route of the present Grange Lane to a cattle-watering place and ford known as Morgan’s Hole on the River Wylye (near where the Boreham Pumping Station now stands).
The River Wylye flows through the southern part of the parish; either side of the river are the water-meadows, where can still be seen the ridges and furrows, and hatches, reminders of when farmers employed “the water drowner” to irrigate the water meadows, to provide an ‘early bite’ of grass for cattle and sheep. The River Wylye was, on 12th September 1997, designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
The Boreham landscape has evolved over hundreds of years. Building houses and roads on Home Farm will soon come into being if planning permission is given. Once built on, the landscape, as we know it, will never look the same again, it will be changed (some will say destroyed) forever.
The northern part of Boreham parish comprises the chalkland edge of Salisbury Plain and features the magnificent Iron Age hill fort of Battlesbury, with its ramparts, burial mounds and strip-lynchets. There is a dew pond near the western entrance to the hilltop. And there are other archaeological features in the parish of Boreham too, including the deserted village site of 14th century Buriton Delamere (the forerunner of Boreham), and King Barrow, which as its name suggests, is the largest burial mound (tumulus) in the Warminster area.
This landscape with Bishopstrow (a Conservation Area designated in 1988) as its neighbour, connects the wonderful Wylye Valley with the Smallbrook Meadows Nature Reserve (Wiltshire Wildlife Trust), providing an important wildlife corridor and much-enjoyed recreational space, reaching all the way from Boreham to the Lake Pleasure Grounds (Town Park) in the heart of the town of Warminster. Some of that corridor has already been partially blocked by the building of Boreham Mead – a very controversial planning issue that must never be repeated again.
Building houses at Home Farm, Boreham will further encroach upon Bishopstrow. Home Farm must not become part of an urban sprawl. The buffer zone between the town and Bishopstrow must be preserved and safe-guarded for future generations.
The Style Of The Houses Proposed For Home Farm
What we don’t want at Boreham are the houses referred to as ‘town houses’ in a rural setting. That would look very incongruous. The houses that Bellway want to build will probably look very similar to the houses recently built off Victoria Road, Warminster. If you go up onto Cley Hill and look towards Warminster, you can see those houses (some of them 3-storeys high) standing out “like a sore thumb”. Does this mean that walkers and ramblers and those exploring Battlesbury Hill in future, will see a similar sight when they look from Battlesbury to Bishopstrow and Boreham? At the moment the view from Battlesbury, to the south-west, shows just how much urban Warminster has grown, while the view south-east shows a relatively unspoilt rural setting, with farms, fields and many trees.
Existing Trees
Several of the trees in the parish of Bishopstrow and Boreham look particularly magnificent, because they either stand alone (i.e. not surrounded by or hemmed in by houses or other trees and woodland) or because they were deliberately planted where they are, to enhance the old manorial estates of Boreham and Bishopstrow.
In Bishopstrow Park, between the lane to Home Farm and Bishopstrow House Hotel, is a magnificent cedar and other long-established trees. The current owners of Bishopstrow House have recently planted more trees, part of their major investment in the community as an employer and provider of a relaxing hotel and spa destination. One cannot fail to notice too the number of yew trees around the southern, eastern and northern boundaries of the parkland and grounds of Bishopstrow House Hotel. Those on the north side were planted many years ago on the Boreham/ Bishopstrow parish boundary.
In the grounds of The Grange is a Redwood (and another magnificent Redwood can be seen in the grounds – the former 18th century pleasure garden – of Bishopstrow House Hotel, by the River Wylye). In Swedelands, Bishopstrow, are walnut trees, and on the Glebe Field, Bishopstrow, is an oak, known as The Prince’s Oak, planted in 1863 to celebrate the marriage of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) . Local people are particularly fond of these trees – they consider them “old friends” and they look glorious in the current setting.
Development Trees
Developers always say they intend to plant trees in order to shield the visual impact of their large housing developments. They usually mention wide screens of trees or shrubbery, but they rarely make known in advance exactly what species, but their buzz words are usually “broadleaved woodland planting.” Do they intend planting beech trees, to match the already adjacent woods to Home Farm, namely Temple’s Plantation (Primrose Wood) and Home Farm Wood, or have they other species in mind? Maybe they can tell us more precisely what they intend with regards tree planting?
The View From Bishopstrow House Hotel
Bishopstrow House was built 1817-1821 in the Georgian/Regency style for William Temple (architect John Pinch the elder of Bath). For more than two centuries there has been an uninterrupted view from Bishopstrow House (a hotel since 1980), looking west across the deserted village site of Buriton to Grange Lane. It seems this was deliberately accounted for when Bishopstrow House was built – the location of the house is on a higher piece of ground adjacent a large and prominent Bronze Age burial mound – giving it a clear view to the 244m./801ft. high Cley Hill (topped with its own burial mound), three miles away, in the parish of Corsley, west of Warminster.
One has to ask whether Bellway Homes intend planting trees to screen their intrusive housing estate? Whether they do or not the resulting traffic on their access road will destroy the ambience of what has been enjoyed for generations. Tree screening by Bellway will block the wonderful view west from the hotel; no tree screening will mean the guests and staff of the hotel will daily have to endure the sight and noise of homeowners’ cars (maybe in the hundreds) as well as the many delivery vehicles going in and out of what is already being referred to by locals as the “Hellway” development. The access road is a lose/lose scenario either way. Also, at night there will be light from street lamps and vehicle headlights. Warminster is on the edge of Cranborne Chase and the West Wiltshire Downs National Landscape (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). Cranborne Chase is an International Dark Skies Reserve, whose aims include reducing light pollution.
The Deserted Village Site ~ Buriton Delamere ~ Archaeology
Referring to their site, Bellway Homes at their public consultation and on their consultation website stated: “It is unconstrained by the flood zone, National Landscape and Sites of Special Scientific Interest which characterise parts of Warminster’s Settlement Boundary.” (This statement along with all the other information they had on their consultation website appears to have now been removed.) They didn’t seem that concerned about archaeology and historic monuments in Boreham and Bishopstrow.
So, what about the deserted village archaeological site, between Grange Lane and the drive to Home Farm? It is our duty to inform Bellway Homes of the significance of this archaeological site. This field hides the secrets of the ancient village of Boreham – the very beginning of the Boreham community – when it was called Buriton Delamere (14th century).
The ancient village area was field-walked by archaeologist Bob Smith in 1977, and he found sherds of pottery (made in Crockerton) and oyster shells (presumably the left-overs of part of the villagers’ diet), but the complete acreage of the site of the early village has never been the subject of a thorough archaeological dig. A few test pits have more recently been dug and these revealed a Mesolithic flint-knapping pit, and a cluster of other pits and post holes dating from the Mesolithic era to the Bronze Age. If development occurs it is now doubtful if any of us will ever discover any more about what was going on in Buriton village 700 years ago.
The surrounding area has many historical remains. It has been described as “an extensive landscape with many ancient monuments”. King Barrow, so named because it is the largest burial mound (tumulus) in the Warminster area, is only a few hundred yards away from the proposed housing development. It should be celebrated for what it is. I referred to it in a booklet of walks I wrote in 1997 for Bishopstrow House Hotel guests. Visitors to the hotel were amazed to know it still existed only yards away from where they were staying in luxury.
During the last decade or so, another fascinating discovery in our area is now being talked and written about. David Field and David McOmish in their book Neolithic Horizons: Monuments And Changing Communities In The Wessex Landscape (published by Fonthill in 2016) refer to a rare mega-henge at the Bury, Bishopstrow. They conclude: “The Bury occupies the point where the chalk ridge on either side starts to constrict to form a narrower valley, a ‘pinch point’ in the landscape, whereby riverside activities were restricted by the geography. The Bury does look to have been strategically placed – an unavoidable and prominent landmark for those travelling along the valley, perhaps those moving to and from the ceremonial complexes further afield.”
The former Spooky Tip Rubbish Dump
“With regard ‘no significant issues that would preclude or constrain development’ at Home Farm, a statement made by the previous developer, back in 2012, it seems that Bellway Homes were up until their public consultation at Warminster Civic Centre on 19th November, also blissfully unaware of the former rubbish dump which existed at the far end of Grange Lane, near The Dene. The site of this rubbish dump is within Bellway’s development area. The rubbish dump, which began life as a large pit in the ground when greensand was quarried in Victorian times, was filled with waste and debris during the 1960s and 1970s, and was then known locally as Spooky Tip (sometimes referred to as Spooks and Spooky Wood), owing to the number of bats that once flew about there in the evening. The bats roosted on nearby trees. Among the items dumped here during the 1960s and 1970s were at least 30, maybe as many as 50 motor vehicles (cars and vans), oil drums, ex-farm chemical drums, batteries, tyres, wire and glass, old asbestos roofing sheets, agricultural waste and some domestic and household waste. The tip was covered over, circa the mid-to-late 1970s, when the stumps of elm trees (trees which had succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease) were bulldozed from the field in front of Home Farm to the tip.
The former rubbish dump area remains uncropped today and is covered in brambles. Rather alarmingly, Bellway’s plan for their development shows they want to build a couple of houses in close proximity to the tip site. As I wrote just now, they were blissfully unaware, until I pointed it out to them as their public consultation. Will the people who buy the houses (if built) be okay knowing their homes or gardens are over a former dump? What about their children playing on top of a buried rubbish tip? Is there methane gas under the soil? Are there toxic hazards below? Will broken glass, sharp metal and wire and other things eventually come to the surface? These are genuine concerns for anyone. Are Bellway Homes prepared to excavate the former tip, to remove its contents, to allay any fears house-buyers may have and to completely ensure the safety of everyone, particularly children? I asked them these questions at their public consultation. The reply I got was that the tip was probably best left alone, to avoid disturbing it, and they would ensure no houses would be built near it.
Sports Pitches
At their public consultation Bellway Homes were keen to tell us that the Home Farm location was a good one for housing because there were already sports pitches near to it. They pointed on their plans to the Kingdown Playing Field near Boreham Crossroads and a rugby pitch to the north of The Dene. They said the open-air facilities were already there and that meant there was no need for them to provide sports pitches. I told them I thought they were being disingenuous. I informed them that the Kingdown Playing Field was now fenced off with locked gates and public access denied. And the rugby pitch was on military land, inside the security fence of Battlesbury Barracks, again with no public access. They responded by saying they would be giving their site a recreational area (for walking and picnicking and children’s play) in return if they are allowed to build on the other Home Farm fields. When I asked if there was a likelihood that the recreation area could in later years become phase 2 of the Home Farm development, bearing in mind it is adjacent to their proposed access road, the Bellway rep said: “No, a clause will be drawn up protecting the recreation area from development for say, 30 years.”
All Creatures Great And Small
Our locality is rich with flora and fauna. The guest rooms at the Home Farmhouse B&B are called the Hedgehog Room, the Deer Room and the Fox Room. Anyone who walks in the Home Farm area will tell you of the foxes that can be seen openly during the daytime, and the deer in the woods and fields. In 2010 I was thrilled when I noticed a dormouse’s nest among the bramble and hazels adjacent Temple’s Plantation (Primrose Wood).
For many years I’ve seen a barn owl quartering over the fields of Boreham Farm and Home Farm in late afternoon in the winter and during the evening in summer. There are buzzards that ‘mew’ overhead as they ride the thermals or hunt rabbits, and other birds of prey at Boreham include kestrels and sparrowhawks. I am pleased to say that Red Kites are now familiar overhead at Boreham Farm and Home Farm. (Not so many years ago I recorded the nearest Red Kites to us as being at Maiden Bradley). Amazingly, a couple of years ago, when I was filming maize being forage-harvested at Barn Field, Home Farm (one of the fields now sadly selected by Bellway Homes for their proposed development), a fellow photographer and friend of mine, Alastair Wright, photographed Red Kites coming down each side of me, picking up snakes.
In the summer of 2024 I was surprised and elated to see a Great Bustard running at quite a pace across Dairy Field at Bishopstrow Farm, from the Bourne to the nettles on the edge of the farm buildings. (Presumably this bird was originally released by David Waters and the team at the Great Bustard Project on Salisbury Plain),
Other sights enjoyed by bird-lovers are the charms of little finches that flit along the wych-elm hedgerows around Barn Field. There are woodpeckers which nest in Home Farm Plantation, and Yellow Hammers are particularly common at Boreham. We also had nuthatches living on a group of larch trees at Spurt Mead, but the first thing that happened when the site was given planning permission (Boreham Mead), the larch trees were felled.
The rosebay willow herb, alongside New Drove, which will form the northern boundary of this development, is where the caterpillars of the elephant hawk moth have been seen in large numbers in recent years. Another wondrous sight seen usually in May are the eerie webs around the caterpillars of the Ermine Moth as they devour the spindle leaves in stretches of the hedgerows.
During the summer, lizards are seen warming themselves in the sunshine on stones and fence-posts, and particularly on ant hills alongside Morgan’s Drove. There are slow worms too and toads. There are many beetles at Boreham, including stag beetles and oil beetles (often seen on warm summer days along New Drove and Morgan’s Lane adjacent the area Bellway have in mind for houses). There used to be water voles in the Bourne Ditch stream north of Home Farm. Last year I photographed some newts (what the elderly people of Boreham in days gone by used to refer to as efts) in the Bourne in Temple’s Plantation (Primrose Wood).
As I mentioned earlier, bats are no strangers to the proximity of The Dene, they can be seen at twilight and have been seen here for at least the last 65 years. A walk up Grange Lane or Home Farm Lane in the evening is rewarded by seeing bats in flight. Earlier this year the owner of the Grange allowed me to look in a stable building (historically listed as a pavilion) behind the house, to briefly glimpse the bats roosting inside. If Bellway Homes are aware of the local bat population, will they ensure an independent survey is carried out to record locations and numbers, and more importantly, what conservation steps are they going to put in place to see a continued future for the bats here?
In 2011 I saw a family of weasels playing on a fallen beech tree near ‘Big Gates,’ where the north-east corner of Bellway Homes’ development plan will reach. A wonderful sight if witnessed in the countryside anywhere around Warminster but something that is undoubtedly threatened by the building of hundreds of houses as the town ever expands. Last year I was lucky again when I saw a weasel in the northern part of Grange Lane (again only a few feet away from where Bellway want to build houses).
Many of these animals and birds I have mentioned will be robbed of their current natural farmland habitat. Barn owls do not hunt over the roofs of housing estates!
Realistic Access From Boreham Road?
Last time around, when Hallam were seeking planning permission, one local resident, echoing the thoughts of many other people, said: “Have you seen where they want to put a junction, for an access road, between Boreham Smithy and the entrance to the driveway to Home Farm and Bishopstrow Court? It’s near a deceiving little bend in Boreham Road. It looks innocuous but it isn’t. There may be a 30 mph limit there but everyday you can witness drivers speeding along there as they head out of Warminster. You mark my words, there’ll be some accidents there, as cars pull out from the new estate (if it’s built).”
Water, Water Everywhere
We are all aware too that the junction of Home Farm Lane and Boreham Road floods here after heavy rainfall. And we have witnessed water pouring off one of the fields at Home Farm (one of the fields Bellway want to build on) and flowing like a river down Grange Lane. Recently, some Grange Lane residents, fearing the worst, built a bank and dug a drainage channel to divert the flood water out of Grange Lane into another field of Home Farm. Local people are not only aware of flooding at Grange Lane; but also deep water lapping against doorsteps at Park Cottages, and flooding like never before at Boreham Crossroads since the building of Boreham Mead. When Boreham Crossroads floods, it is not only river water but also sewage, because the flood is added to by water coming down Woodcock Road. The manhole covers for the sewerage system lift up and are displaced. It’s a problem that has been witnessed many times. When I asked a representative of Bellway Homes, at their public consultation (which was only allocated five hours for public face-to-face consultation) how they would ensure their development did not exacerbate the problems with flooding and the health hazards of sewage that erupts with it, the reply was similar to that of several other questions asked, it was along the lines of “That’s not really for us, that’s for others like Wessex Water, to deal with.”
The Importance Of Rubble Stone Walls
Bellway Homes have a long way to go to convince that their plans are agreeable with the public. A rubble stone wall runs along a considerable length of Boreham Road, from No.195 (Walnut Cottage) to the Cotes. Both the wall and the Cotes are listed as architecturally important. Behind this wall, in earlier times, was the market garden that supplied Bishopstrow House and its resident squire and his family with fresh produce. In more recent years, Bert Legg kept pigs in the former market garden, which was then completely surrounded by a rubble stone wall. There is a small wooden gateway in the wall at Boreham Road (boarded-up for many years) and people who have lived nearby say they cannot recall seeing this gate opened recently. Access by the farmer to the former market garden/pig paddock was made via the field to the north. Back in the 1950s/1960s an application was made to knock down the wall between 195 Boreham Road and The Cotes, to facilitate the building of a petrol-filling station here on the former market-garden. Permission was not given to demolish the wall or build the petrol station. There is a surveyor’s datum mark in the pavement near the gate. Bellway Homes have indicated that they might suggest a pedestrian entrance here.
Of even greater concern to local people is the fate that Bellway Homes could inflict on another stretch of the rubble stone wall, between the Old Smithy and the current junction with Home Farm Lane. They envisage a “turn-right vehicle-strip in the middle of the road here for vehicles wanting to enter their development from the direction of Salisbury. Local resident Nick Tilt says the road here is not wide enough for such a feature. It seems that Bellway Homes will have to knock the wall down and rebuild it or replace it with another wall, creating a splayed access entrance further to the north of the road. Local people are not happy with that proposal. Bellway, when asked about plans for a junction and the wall, at their public consultation, again responded that it wasn’t really up to them but the Highways department of Wiltshire Council would sort it out.
Other communities in Wiltshire, including Blunsdon St. Andrew and Tisbury have acknowledged the intrinsic value and cherished character of their rubble stone walls. They have protected their walls by listing them. Alteration or removal of the rubble stone walls in Blunsdon is not allowed without specific planning consent from Swindon Borough Council. The rubble stone walls at Boreham and Bishopstrow add characteristic ambience and visual quality, from the garden at Bishopstrow Farmhouse, alongside the northern boundary of the Bishopstrow House Pleasure Garden, the southern boundary of Bishopstrow House hotel grounds, from Old Stones cottage to the junction with Home Farm Lane, and as previously mentioned from the Home Lane junction to the Old Smithy and from The Cotes to Walnut Cottage. Another long stretch of rubble stone wall holds back the playing field on the north side of Boreham Road from opposite Park Cottages to opposite the junction with Smallbrook Lane. These walls “guide” the traveller into Warminster when approaching from the Wylye Valley on the B3414. Several people are saying it would be welcome if all these walls were listed.
Vehicles And Vehicle Movements In And Out Of This Development
When asked how many cars and how many vehicle movements would result from their development, Bellway, at their public consultation, didn’t want to guess a figure. But more cars is a major issue for the good folks of Warminster. Local people are already aware of traffic congestion in Warminster at peak times and how car parking charges in the town are making many motorists resort to on-street parking in residential streets around the town centre, such as Imber Road, Boreham Road, Weymouth Street, Portway, and Sambourne Road, when they go into Warminster to shop. More cars means more problems. It is a well-known observation that, despite our awareness of green issues and the environment, the majority of people are not going to give up their cars. For most people, if they can’t drive where they want to go in their car, well, they don’t go. Like it or not, we live in a car society. Maybe the people who will live in a development on Home Farm will not go into Warminster to shop anyway, because they will work away from Warminster elsewhere (on account of a lack of employment opportunities in Warminster). Maybe they will shop away where they work? That in itself is not really a benefit to the economy of our town. Can our local councillors or the Planning Department at Wiltshire Council give forward-planning information about this factor?
The Flood Plain
Immediately south of Home Farm, on the opposite side of Boreham Road, are the water-meadows, through which runs the River Wylye. It is utmost in our minds that all the run-off water and waste water from Warminster, comes downstream to Boreham, Bishopstrow and the Wylye Valley. A resident tells us that a proposal, some years ago, to build houses in the field (Manor Mead) opposite the entrance to Home Farm, was refused because it was considered a vital flood plain.
Any proposed development on Home Farm will have to heed full regard to the flood plain and the River Wylye habitat to the south. Bellway had nothing to say about the river at their public consultation. Can Bellway inform us fully what discussions and meetings they have had with the local rivers authority, the water board, the river keepers, the anglers, and perhaps most importantly with those who own or live in homes precariously close to the river bank? And can Bellway tell us precisely what steps they will be taking so as not to detrimentally affect the flood plain? We need written assurances about this. There is much to be discussed before the application is scrutinised. Measures need to be put in place before more houses are considered for Warminster.
A New School And Getting There And Back?
By 2012 there was considerable talk that Kingdown Community School at Woodcock Road had or was at that time nearly reaching full capacity and that there was a real need to build a bigger school elsewhere, possibly on the other side of Warminster (in the West Warminster Urban Extension). Despite the WWUE already populated with hundreds of houses, no school has been built there yet. If Kingdown is replaced with a new school on the Frome side of Warminster, it means the Home Farm development is not well located for secondary school children, especially when you consider the distance, the vagaries of getting across town by road, the traffic movements, and the number of cars. Buses will be the solution, but when will a new school be open?
Bellway, at their public consultation and on their consultation website, displayed information which included the following statement: “Connectivity for new residents via existing routes to school provision in Warminster, along with the town centre and all its facilities, supporting Bellway’s approach to a ‘live local lifestyle’.” Basically, that means you just use the existing roads through and around town to get to school or wherever you are going. (By the way, it seems all the information they had on their consultation website has been removed.)
Infrastructure and Community Facilities
It’s not only the educational needs of our town, but other factors including infracture and much-needed facilities being put under strain as more houses are built. Isn’t our town big enough already? Can it cope with more houses, more residents, more cars? Do you think you are able to see your doctor in adequate time? Have you even got a dentist? I’ve had first hand experience recently, as I get older, that there is no A&E department in Warminster (despite its increasing population) and that I have had to rely on the kindness of someone to get me to the Urgent Treatment Centre in Frome or Salisbury District Hospital (RUH, Bath, is the other option). Developers provide no solutions to these enduring problems.
Isn’t it time we all said “enough is enough” in Warminster? If the Home Farm development goes ahead the urban sprawl will just about reach the adjacent parish of Bishopstrow. Who wants that? Most of us love living in Warminster because most of us are close by to a field, a wood, a lane, a riverbank, a hill, and all those things that make the outskirts of Warminster a beautiful place where we can relax and enjoy fresh air. If you build on every green space you not only ruin the space but also the whole ethos of Warminster being a country town. Fortunately a lot of us are fully aware of how fortunate we are to have the space, the leisure, the history and the wildlife on our doorstep. I know I’m not the only one who understands what can be seen at Boreham. I am reminded of something that the landscape artist John Constable said, something that was later repeated by the landscape historian W.G. Hoskins: “We see nothing till we truly understand it.”
And Finally . . .
Once more, the local community is, within days of hearing about yet another Home Farm proposal, saying a unanimous “No!” to residential development there. EBBRAG, the East Boreham Business and Residents Group. are already fighting it. Of course there are a few detractors who say that people cannot stop development. Earlier this year local residents stopped the Barratt Homes application at Westbury Road, Warminster, using legitimate planning objections. Those objections and more equally apply to Home Farm. Remember too that a Planning Inspector refused the previous application for Home Farm. Nothing apart from the layout has changed. All the well-known problems and concerns are still extant. None of us want the landscape and character of Boreham changed irreversibly forever, we don’t want our farmland built upon, we don’t want our wildlife to suffer, we don’t want the problems of increased traffic, we have concerns about drainage and sewerage already, we cannot allow any more strain on our local services, and we certainly don’t accept the need for hundreds of more houses in Boreham or anywhere else in Warminster. That’s the message the people of Boreham and Bishopstrow (and others in Warminster) are now sending to developers and planners.