Salisbury's Brown Street car park removed from city development plans

Affordable housing for Coldharbour Lane and Quidhampton Quarry also shelved

Author: Faye TryhornPublished 7th Mar 2023

Plans for affordable homes in three parts of Salisbury have been removed from a local Neighbourhood Plan.

Salisbury City Council is leading the project, into the development of the city over the coming years.

They've taken hundreds of responses into the plan during a consultation into account, and removed three sites earmarked for affordable housing out of the document for now.

Brown Street car park, the former gasworks at Coldharbour Lane and Quidhampton Quarry have been removed.

These elements have been described as the 'most controversial' parts of the plan, and will be 'set aside to minimise delay' to the overall project.

All other parts of the document, containing policies on streetscape, historic environment, nature and wildlife, to promote good building design and to set out a wider vision for Salisbury’s future can move on to the next stages.

That would include final consultations with Wiltshire Council, examination by an inspector, and a referendum open to all voters living within the City Council boundary.

Steering Group Chairman Cllr Annie Riddle said:

“If and when it passes that referendum, it’ll be good news for the city because having an adopted plan means local people’s views will carry more weight in the planning application process and the City Council will be allowed to keep a higher percentage of the CIL money contributed by developers for infrastructure projects. That means more decision-making in local people’s hands.

“We are grateful to everyone who has contributed to the process so far and we hope it won’t be many more months before we’re able to put the plan to a vote of all our residents.”

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