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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
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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
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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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website sponsored by
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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
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