The allocation of Home Farm, Boreham, Warminster, as a housing site, has been removed from the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan.
60% of respondents to the Neighbourhood Plan Consultation were against Home Farm being allocated.
The following statement is included in an update about the Warminster Neighbourhood Plan, on the Warminster Town Council website (published today – 30th June 2026)
A decision on housing
The Plan also retains a policy reinforcing the town’s built area boundary to protect the rural setting from unplanned development and to support that delivery of local housing needs.
However, the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group is to recommend not allocating any specific housing sites in Warminster within the upcoming Neighbourhood Plan.
Results from the community demonstrated that around 40% of those who responded were in favour of the allocation, with 60% against.
The Land East of the Dene (also known as Home Farm on Boreham Road) was the key focus for many community respondents.
Looking at this feedback, it is clear to the Steering Group that there is not sufficient public support to keep the site allocations policy, and the Plan needs to be updated to reflect that.
We know there are implications for the town as a result of this outcome, which were made clear in the consultation. Removing site allocation means Warminster will not be actively directing where its required housing should go; and what it should, and should not, contain.
It’s important to note that removing site allocation from our plan does not mean no houses will be built. With Wiltshire Council currently revising its Local Plan and likely increasing housing targets county-wide, developers remain entirely free to submit speculative planning applications for any available site.
Wiltshire Council will make the decisions on those planning applications. Warminster needs an up-to-date Neighbourhood Plan that can influence those decisions.
The focus shifts to raising the design and environmental bar for any planning application. It is hoped that the overall suite of Neighbourhood Plan’s policies will help resist inappropriate housing proposals that may come forward through speculative planning applications.