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Patron:  Dr Andrew Murrison MP

Chairman:  Michael Heaton

Secretary:  Christopher Montagu

Registered Charity No. 265408

 
 

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What's a 'Wobble' ?.  Fewer cars would improve the environment of the town centre. To that end we support the initiatives of Sustrans and the Cyclists Union in promoting the use of bicycles and incorporating cycle paths in plans for the town's future.  

Warminster Civic Trust is a Registered Charity, established in 1972 to promote high standards of architecture and civic planning within the town and its hinterland. We pursue this aim by fostering debate at our Open Meetings and in the Media; by exercising our right as 'Statutory Consultee' to comment on planning applications affecting the town centre; by commending, in the Media, good design and stewardship wherever we see it; and by assisting the town and county councils in discharging their statutory duties of care towards the town's highways, open spaces and public services. We work in partnership with the Town Council, the Warminster and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce, the Warminster and Villages Community Partnership and the many other amenity societies representing the town.  We are also the 'parent' organisation for the Warminster Preservation Trust, a separate Registered Charity in its' own right.  We have also recently set up a reciprocal website link with 'Vision for Warminster' - a pressure group with many similar objectives to ours, with whom we hope to enjoy fruitful discussions - and the local web-based events diary Warminster Web. We recommend you look at their websites.    

Warminster is a relatively small market town nestling within the chalk downland of south west Wiltshire, half way between Salisbury and Bath. Depending on your interests, it is famous as: the Army's School of Infantry situated, as it is, on the western edge of the Salisbury Plain Training Area; the nearest town (2km) to Longleat; or the only town in the world to be surrounded by three Iron Age (c. 750BC) hillforts. The town centre retains nearly all its 18th and 19th century buildings, in a streetscape that has not changed substantially since the 1880s, especially on Friday night...., but we also have the new buildings and facilities necessary for our thriving industrial and commercial economy. The Town is forward-looking whilst mindful of its heritage, and so is the Civic Trust.

Warminster Civic Trust is (was !) affiliated to The Civic Trust, the national organisation founded in 1967. It is affiliated to its succesor organisation Civic Voice. We'll put the link in when we've got it. 

 

 

 

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    A market town in a changing market.

The Town and particularly the commercial core that forms the main Conservation Area, has evolved over centuries (actually millenia) in response to changing economic and social forces.  The challenge now facing Warminster, in common with all historic market towns, is to ensure that the historic buildings and townscapes we value for aesthetic reasons can pay their way in the competitive economy of internet shopping and out-of town superstores.  Sentiment alone will not do.