1,000 new houses in Malmesbury?

800 on Filands and Whychurch fields?
200 on Park Road?

Housing developers are considering building 1,000 new houses in Malmesbury. 800 are proposed in the north-east of the town on Filands and Whychurch fields, 200 are proposed off Park Road. Currently both sites are farm land.

1,000 houses is a 40% increase in housing in Malmesbury. This would introduce significant new pressures on schools, health care, employment, traffic, parking, conservation etc. Malmesbury is already creaking with nearly 600 new houses built since 2004 – a housing increase of more than 25% in six years.

The new coalition government proposes that local communities will control housing and planning decisions. This means future development should reflect locally identified needs and not development imposed from outside.

Your views count

Government policy is changing and communities are being provided with the opportunity to have a significant input over planning policy in their area. In response to this, local organisations including the Residents' Association, Civic Trust and the Town Council, chaired by the mayor, Patrick Goldstone have set up the Malmesbury Development Forum (MDF) to initially assess the impact of any such development on the town.   

What can you do now?

• Malmesbury Residents' Association are currently working on responses to these proposals. Why not join (£4 per year), have your say and keep up to date. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. '; document.write(''); document.write(addy_text81109); document.write('<\/a>'); //-->\n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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