Defra’s Property Flood Resilience Repair Grant Scheme – Storm Babet (Oct 2023) & Storm Henk (Jan 2024) June Update
See below communication from Wiltshire Council about Defra’s Property Flood Resilience Repair Grant Scheme. As you may know, Wiltshire experienced 3 named storms, over 100 communities affected, 300+ properties internally flooded and, until very recently, we were unfortunately still experiencing flooding events. We apologies for not getting around to all communities affected, unfortunately with the […]
Wiltshire Briefings
See below the latest Briefing Notes from Wiltshire Council.
White Horse cantering into Spring!
Huge thanks to the team of volunteers who worked hard last Sunday weeding and re-liming Broad Town’s White Horse. The horse looks magnificent and a credit to our village. We were accompanied by two reporters for the BBC Tadio 4 programme “Open Country” which will air on 6 June and on BBC Sounds thereafter. Particular […]
Briefing Note 24-09, Defra Simpler Recycling Update
Below see attached a copy of briefing note 24-09, Defra Simpler Recycling update; this provides an update following a recent announcement from Defra on their Simpler Recycling Policy.
Annual Parish Meeting Monday 20th May 2024
Dear all, Just a note to remind that the Annual Parish Meeting is to be held Monday 20th May 2024, at 6.30 in the Village Hall, where all are warmly welcomed to attend and hear what the Parish Council and its working groups has been doing over the last year, plans for the coming year, […]
Temporary Traffic Regulation Order for Broad Chalke History Festival commencing 24th June 2024
Section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 Various Temporary Traffic Restrictions: Chalke Valley History Festival, Broad Chalke (Ref: TTRO 9537) Notice is hereby given that the Wiltshire Council has made an Order to: Temporarily introduce a One-Way traffic restriction on the following roads in the specified directions: a) Howgare Road (Part), Broad Chalke; […]
D-Day Anniversary event 6th June
Wootton Basset Town Council are hosting a D-Day 80th Anniversary event that we are hosting on Thursday 6th June 2024 from 6.30pm – 9.30pm, at Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Football Club, Ballard’s Ash, Malmesbury Road, Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8DS. This is a FREE Community outdoor event for all the family to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of […]
Local area priorities consultation
Wiltshire Council is running an online survey gathering information about what local people feel are the important themes and priorities for their area. The short survey asks people to choose their key themes and then, for their top three, tell us further detail about those issues. It shouldn’t take any longer than 10mins to complete. […]
Village Tidy Up Saturday 27th April 10am Village Hall
It’s the time of year for us to give the village a spring clean. Meet at the Village Hall from 10am for a village tidy and litter pick up. We will be providing litter picker tongs, gloves, bin bags and Hi-Viz vests to teams of willing helpers. We are also looking for volunteers with spades/shovels […]
Temporary Closure of: C415 (Part), Royal Wootton Bassett (31.05.2024)
Temporary Closure of: C415 (Part), Royal Wootton Bassett (Ref: TTRO 9478) Notice is hereby given that the Wiltshire Council has made an Order to close temporarily to all traffic: C415 (Part), Royal Wootton Bassett; from its junction with Brooklands for a distance of approximately 300m in a south easterly direction. To enable: Wiltshire Council to […]