Wiltshire Council gives green light for houses on Westbury Hospital site

Yet more houses will be built in Westbury after Wiltshire Council approved plans for 58 houses to be built on the former hospital land.The decision, two years in the making, was made a planning meeting on Wednesday (September 28) to the dismay of councillors from the town and residents, who believe that Westbury is already overdeveloped with a lack on infrastructure.Seven councillors on Wiltshire Council’s planning committee approved the plans while two opposed, meaning that NHS Property Services will now market the site to a developer. Councillors on the committee, who visited the site before the meeting took place, felt that there was not sufficient reason to refuse the application despite members of the public raising concerns about traffic, lack of infrastructure and parking problems. The property transferred to the ownership of NHS Property Services following the NHS reforms in April 2013, after the hospital closed in 2012.