Wiltshire Council has allocated £65,000 from the Substantive Highways Fund for improvements to the B3109 junction at Lower South Wraxall. The work is slightly vulnerable to delay as the scheme came sixth out of six in terms of cost-effectiveness and deliverability. However if all goes according to plan it could happen in the next financial […]

The final phase of the project to resurface the road from Forewoods Common to east of Holt will happen in April, when Melksham Road will be done. Unfortunately a section of the road between the two Midlands junction was left out when it should’ve been done and won’t be completed. It will though go back […]

4 Youth is one of six community groups to have received a grant via Police and Crime Commissioner Philip Wilkinson’s Community Action Fund. 4 Youth is a community youth organisation which works with young people of all backgrounds to deliver positive youth activities each week through youth clubs and street-based work.  The £5,000 funding will […]

The Liberal Democrats have won the Calne seat, where the election was to replace the late Conservative councillor Tony Trotman. Here’s the result: Robert MacNaughton – Lib Dem 424 Conservative                                   283 Labour                […]

A planning application has been submitted for the Whistlemead site, reference number PL/2023/01914.  Promoters ABEI energy held exhibitions at South Wraxall on December 13th 2022 and in Atworth Village Hall on February 1st 2023. Their website is https://www.whistlemeadsolar.com A screening option, ref PL/2022/00726, was to determine whether or not an Environmental Impact Assessment needed to […]

The Environment Act 2021 says weekly food waste collections should be provided by local authorities by 31 March 2026. However it has provided dispensation to those councils who are unable to begin their service by that date. Wiltshire Council finds itself in this position, and has agreed with Defra that food waste collection will start […]

To look at an application on the WC website, copy the reference number, go to WC planning website  then paste the reference number into the ‘Keyword Search’ box. ………………………. PL/2024/00593 – Prior Notification: Great Cumberwell Farm: Agricultural Shed to store machinery: Prior Approval Granted. PL/2024/00095 – 56, UPPER SOUTH WRAXALL: Works to Trees in a Conservation Area: […]

Auditors Deloitte have been unable to sign off WC’s accounts for 2019/20 due to ‘pervasive weaknesses’ in the council’s accounting. They found “49 areas where weaknesses in control have been identified, 24 of which … (were) assessed as having a high severity of impact.” They conclude this means the council does not appear to have […]

To look at an application on the WC website, copy the reference number, go to WC planning website  then paste the reference number into the ‘Keyword search’ box. ……………………….. PL/2023/11016:  SMALLBROOK HOUSE – Works to tree: permitted. PL/2023/10641:  Emmaus School:  Demolition of existing modular classroom and rear extension to main school building; erection of two storey […]

There is scheduled to be a road closure from April 2 – 4. It’ll be on the narrow section just south of the Church Street junction. Traffic will be diverted via South Wraxall and Fiveways.