Planning Applications - Old Sarum Airfield

On the BBC website (but not yet on Wiltshire Council's site) is a news report dated 5 March that the appeal against allowing 315 new houses to be built on the Old Sarum Airfield site was dismissed:

"Plans to build hundreds of homes on a former World War One airfield have moved a step closer to reality, after the High Court rejected a challenge by Wiltshire Council.

The council argued the circumstances surrounding the development of Old Sarum, near Salisbury, had changed after a listed aircraft hangar there was destroyed by a fire in April 2025.

But Mrs Justice Lang disagreed, finding the Planning Inspectorate's original decision allowing the 315-home development to go ahead, which was issued days before the fire, was neither unjust nor unfair."

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Regular News - The latest applications for the Salisbury St Francis & Stratford Ward have been downloaded from the Wiltshire Council website and are available to view in the Local Information section of the village website: Local Information - Planning applications 

The search date was 6 March 2026

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Of local interest but just outside our

St Francis & Stratford Salisbury ward is a proposal by Wiltshire Council for the installation of an 18-metre high, 11kW horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) at High Post. If approved, the wind turbine would be freestanding tower-mounted with two blades.

Details for the application number PL2025/06175 are available on the

Wiltshire Council website.