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Please see notice below.

Residents can view the Agendas and Appendices for the meeting on the Council Meetings calendar found on the home page.

To mark the 40th Anniversary ending of Falklands War, today residents are welcome to join the Royal Wootton Bassett Royal British Legion and Flag Master, Gary Kendall to raise the Union Jack flag at the flagpole on the High Street at 11am.

Our Mayor, Councillor Pat Farrow will lay a wreath.

The event will give the town a moment to acknowledge and honour those involved in the Falklands War.

Proposals have been received for a new food store off Malmesbury Road (B4042). The scheme includes 2.15 hectares of a new community open space as well as a modern Lidl foodstore. The open space includes parkland, play areas for families to use, seating areas, accessible footpaths and a wildflower meadow.

The Lidl store would be built to the company’s latest specifications and deliver up to 30 new jobs. The site would include 125 parking spaces, access from Malmesbury Road, Electric Vehicle charging points and wider tree planting across the site.

Details of the scheme is available on the consultation website: https://rwb.expansion.lidl.co.uk

As part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, our Town Crier performed a Jubilee Cry at 2pm on Thursday 2nd June 2022 followed by the Beacon being lit at Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Club later that same evening, one of many throughout the UK and Commonwealth. (Interesting Fact: the last time the Beacon was lit was 28 years ago to commemorate the 50 years of the D-Day Landings).

If you were not able to attend these events then please see videos below. We hope you enjoy them and that everyone had a great time celebrating this special occasion!

UPDATE
13/06/2022

The Town Council were sad and disappointed on learning that the play equipment at Poetsfield, Otters Way, Showfield, Old Court play parks had been vandalised with graffiti, last week. Our grounds team are presently carrying out the task of removing this significant amount graffiti, so please bear with us whilst this work is undertaken.

The public toilets at Boroughfields Shopping Centre were also vandalised with a lot of graffiti and sadly excrement being smeared on the toilet, floor and surfaces [on numerous occasions] and so were temporarily closed for a week, whilst they were cleaned.  They have now re-opened, but there is still some graffiti on one of the doors which isn’t coming off using our usual products, so once again bear with us as we work out the best way to remove it.

The Town Council are working closely with Wiltshire Police to identify those responsible. If anyone has any information, please contact Wiltshire Police on 101.

PRESS RELEASE
25 May 2022

Royal Wootton Bassett is marking her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee and 70 years of service, with the planting of a commemorative Jubilee Oak tree, at Marlowe Way, Royal Wootton Bassett on the 1st of June 2022.

The Jubilee Oak Dedication ceremony will take place at 2pm on Wednesday 1st of June 2022, will be adorned with a plaque to mark the auspicious occasion and be unveiled by the town’s Mayor, Councillor Pat Farrow.

Also in attendance will be members of the town’s community groups, business, young people and residents, who are most warmly welcomed to attend.

This commemorative event, will also serve to mark the start of extensive tree planting within the town, forming both a part of both the Queen’s Canopy and the town’s commitment to support the environment through initiatives such as re-wilding.

Of note, is that such tree planting continue a long history in the Royal town which began with the planting of Plane trees along with the High Street in 1897, to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

Further, that the planting of trees links back to the name of Royal Wootton Bassett, from which ‘Wootton’ derives from a ‘settlement near a wood’.

Mayor, Councillor Pat Farrow said “We are privileged to be able to mark her Majesties Jubilee and delighted that we can do so with and Oak that represents both her long reign, steadfastness and desire to support the environment. More so since this reflects the desires of our council and community to protect and enhance our natural environment”.

PRESS RELEASE

On Thursday 12^th May 2022, at the Annual Meeting of Royal Wootton Bassett Town Council, Councillor Pat Farrow was elected as Mayor of the Town and Community for the 2022-2023 civic year.

The ceremony was held in St Bartholomew & All Saints Church and was the first in person Mayor Making ceremony since 2019. Guests were welcomed with a Guard of Honour from Royal Wootton Bassett Sea and Marine Cadets. Entertainment was provided by a brass band ensemble from the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Music Department and light refreshments provided by Delicias Catering.

Councillor Pat Farrow will be supporting Wiltshire Tree House and Wootton Bassett Carnival as the Mayor’s chosen charities.

At the same meeting, Councillor Eve Silvester was elected as Deputy Mayor.

We wish them both a successful year. For any Mayoral enquiries please contact enquiries@royalwoottonbassett.gov.uk or call the office on 01793 850222.

Photo of the new Mayor, Councillor Pat Farrow.

To mark the Queen’s 70-year reign on the throne the Mayor, Councillor Pat Farrow, Royal Wootton Bassett Royal British Legion and Flag Master will raise the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Flag on Wednesday 1st June 2022 on the High Street at 11am.

Please see Press Notice below of Wiltshire Council’s proposed Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) for public consultation, which ends on Monday 23rd May 2022.

Comments on these proposals, quoting reference HKB/TRO/WILTS may be made by: email to trafficorderconsultations@wiltshire.gov.uk or in writing to: TRO Team, Sustainable Transport Group, Highways & Transport, County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge Wiltshire BA14 8JN