Block Management in Tidworth

Both the stock and the tenure profile here follow from the garrison. On stock, Tidworth North and West returns 508 purpose-built flats among 2,247 households, 22.6 per cent. Taking the census output areas inside the built-up area gives 3,290 households with 674 in flats, 20.5 per cent, of which 617 are purpose-built. On tenure, owner occupation runs at 31 to 33 per cent across the two Tidworth wards. Private renting approaches half of all households, overwhelmingly in the census category of other private rented, which is where service family accommodation is recorded. Tidworth East and Ludgershall South ward has only ten of its nineteen output areas inside the town, the rest being Ludgershall, which has a separate built-up area of its own. With so many households renting, directors should keep an up-to-date record of which flats are let and who to contact for each.

Decided under the Wiltshire Core Strategy, adopted 20 January 2015, together with saved policies from the Kennet District Local Plan. The council's own appendix records that plan as adopted in April 2004 rather than 2011 as its website suggests, 2011 being the plan period. Two saved Kennet policies are Tidworth-specific, both covering the north east quadrant allocation of 150 dwellings. The emerging Wiltshire Local Plan reached examination in November 2024. It was withdrawn on 22 May 2026 under section 22 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, with its replacement not expected before 30 April 2029. The council states that the 2015 Core Strategy's policies are not automatically out of date and will continue to guide development. There is no neighbourhood plan for Tidworth and none for Ludgershall either, so no referendum figures exist. Tidworth is not in a National Landscape. The parish does not intersect the North Wessex Downs designation at all, and the built-up area is about 2.3 kilometres from it, just outside its southern edge. Two constraints are unusual and both matter. The Salisbury Plain Special Protection Area and Special Area of Conservation cover 13.1 per cent of the parish, and their boundary directly abuts the built-up area. The whole town also sits inside the River Avon Special Area of Conservation nutrient neutrality catchment, where the applicable nutrient is phosphorus, because the Bourne is a headwater of the Hampshire Avon. That constrains new residential development through the catchment rather than through proximity to the river channel, which is nearly six kilometres away. For an existing block, it matters mainly when a freeholder plans extra flats on the site.