Plans have been submitted for more than 30 homes on land on the edge of Devizes.

NHS Property Services has lodged an application with Wiltshire Council for 33 homes next to health facilities to the north of Marshall Road.

The proposals for the site are a mix of two and three storey houses arranged in terraces or semi-detached pairs along with 1 detached house. In total it is proposed there will be 33 dwellings and 73 car spaces.

The site is next to an integrated care centre which is being built by the NHS, and close to the existing treatment centre which carries out minor operations on NHS patients.

The new £10.9m Devizes Health Centre will not replace any local GP practices, all of which will continue to operate as normal once the site opens later in the year, but the services currently provided by Wiltshire Health and Care at the Devizes Community Hospital will be moving to the health centre.

It is an outline application at the moment, with the exact design likely to emerge in a detailed application in the future.

The site is accessible from Marshall Road, which links to the A342 Nursteed Road which provides access to the south-east of Devizes.

The applicant says the scheme will ‘contribute to the delivery of much-needed new housing on surplus public sector land’ as well as being in keeping with the Devizes Neighbourhood Plan, which says new developments should be capped at 65 homes.

It comes after 170 homes to the south of the town were approved by the town council earlier this year - to the south of Marshall Road.  

A pre-application was submitted to Wiltshire Council in June 2021. Nick Clark, the case officer, confirmed that the principle of development was "acceptable".

The applicants argue that the proposal is "acceptable in planning terms".

They say that given the sites location within the settlement boundary, it is well connected and readily accessible by a range of modes of transport.

They add: "The proposed development will contribute to the delivery of much needed new housing on surplus public sector land". 

They say it will be "of high qaulity", will not give rise to any amenity concerns for nearby occupiers and will not give rise to any "adverse ecological, archaeological or flooding impacts".