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Land to the north west of Gerard Buxton Sports Ground, Brinkworth Road, Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8DS

PL/2024/10635Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 5 March 2025

Council decision: Approve with Conditions7 conditions

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

Proposal

The proposed development is to develop the currently arable land into grass playing surface for hosting of youth football, and to join the new land to the existing RWBSA sports ground.

Submitted
2 December 2024
Ward
Royal Wootton Bassett East ED
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 93 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land to the north west of Gerard Buxton Sports Ground, Brinkworth Road, Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8DS. Wiltshire has handled 9,967 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 6 weeks longer than Wiltshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Royal Wootton Bassett East ED. We hold 902 applications in total for the SN4 postcode area.

93% of full 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
SN4 8DS
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Lydiard Tregoze CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2024
Consultation expiry
2 January 2025
Consultation end
2 January 2025
Target decision date
5 March 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
93 days

Additional information

Documents
16

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.

Source: Wiltshire

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