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Tips go under new management
Hills Waste Solutions aren't running our Household Recycling Centres any more. FCC Environment have been given the contract for the management of the nine HRCs which are owned by the council.
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WC's 'dodgy pyramid scheme' collapses
WC's flagship 'campus' programme is in ruins following financial mismanagement by the Conservative administration. The original plan was to use public assets stripped from the pre-2009 District…
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Faster traffic on Leap Gate
Despite objections from residents Wiltshire Council is to put yellow lines along the road from Green Lane to Huntingfield. This will allow traffic to speed through the development without being…
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Death of the Campus programme in Wiltshire
This week's Wiltshire Council Cabinet confirmed the death of the Campus programme in the county.
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Car parking charges to shoot up
Cash-strapped Wiltshire Council wants to make more money from car parking, and has come up with a number of possible ways to do this. These include:
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Developers appeal Southwick refusal
The outline application by Redrow Homes for the development of up to a hundred houses, together with open space, access, landscaping and engineering works on land south of Blind Lane was refused by…
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7,000 immigrants coming to Wiltshire
The 'Wiltshire Assembly' meeting held on November 9th 2017 heard how the county was planning to deal with them. Schools and houses will be built to cope with the inrush, and the positive effect on…
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Tarmac apply to redevelop Westbury Cement Works site
An outline application for the development of a rail-served slab track manufacturing facility including offices and a laboratory, with a concrete batching plant; provision for storage, handling and…
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Bath MP, Wera Hobhouse, guest of honour at Chippenham Liberal Democrat Annual Dinner
Bath's newly elected MP, Wera Hobhouse, was guest of honour at the Chippenham Constituency Liberal Democrat Annual Dinner in Bradford on Avon on Saturday night (Oct 28th).
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Wiltshire Council is considering three-weekly bin collections
In response to a question from Marlborough councillor Nick Fogg WC has admitted it's looking at other councils who have introduced collections of residual waste on a three-weekly rota: