The team behind the Jubilee Gardens development in Warminster has secured planning permission for its fourth phase.

The approval enables Persimmon Homes Wessex to start building 266 additional homes, bringing the total number of consented dwellings on the scheme to 772 to help meet the town's housing need. Persimmon's sister brand, Charles Church, will also be involved in this phase.

Phase Four includes 61 properties for a local housing association. Across the full build-out, including future phases, the expected total of such homes is 300. Alongside market-sale homes, this is intended to help ease housing pressures locally.

The decision also clears the way for a substantial area of public open space, completing the linear park envisioned earlier in the planning process. Ecological measures such as bird and bat boxes will be provided on site.

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While the whole development is set to generate millions of pounds of investment in the community, this phase alone is expected to deliver a significant Community Infrastructure Levy contribution.

On completion, Jubilee Gardens will feature sports pitches, changing facilities, allotments and ecology areas. Three- and four-bedroom homes are already available to buy at the west Warminster site, with prices starting at £316,995, and more two-bedroom homes will be launched soon.

Seb Spiller, managing director at Persimmon Homes Wessex, said: "I am pleased that Persimmon has secured its latest planning approval in Warminster, demonstrating our commitment to working with the community to deliver low-cost, high-quality, much-needed homes in the town.

"Creating a sense of place as part of our mission to deliver a positive and lasting legacy is important to Persimmon, and we are evidently bringing that to Jubilee Gardens, not just through new housing, but the supporting infrastructure that goes with it.

"We are extremely proud of what we have achieved on-site already and are proud to have hosted many stakeholders there over the years, so we are very excited to break ground on the next phase as we work with Wiltshire Council to meet our mutual goals."