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Elm Grove Farm, Drynham Road, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 0PL

PL/2022/09425Approval of reserved mattersApproved
Reserved matters

Approved on 5 December 2024

Council decision: Approve with Conditions19 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demolition of existing buildings and structures and construction of 248 residential homes, playing pitches, allotments, areas of open space, upgrading of existing play area, sustainable drainage infrastructure, internal roads, paths and parking areas, lan

Submitted
25 January 2023
Ward
Trowbridge Drynham ED
  1. Received25 Jan
  2. Validated25 Jan
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target31 Oct
  5. Decided5 Dec

Decided in 680 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Elm Grove Farm, Drynham Road, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 0PL. Wiltshire has handled 971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 680 days, 90 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 8 applications across Trowbridge Drynham ED. We hold 2,268 applications in total for the BA14 postcode area.

80% of outline applications at Wiltshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA14 0PL
Application type
Approval of reserved matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
248
Parish
Trowbridge CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 January 2023
Consultation expiry
2 October 2024
Consultation end
2 October 2024
Target decision date
31 October 2024

Planning decision

Case officer
Jemma Foster
Statutory period
645 days

Additional information

Documents
342

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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    25 Jan

    Demolition of existing buildings and structures and construction of 248 residential homes, playing pitches…

    This applicationApprovedOutlinePL/2022/09425

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