Waste and
recycling collections running as normal over the Easter holidays
Waste crews are working as normal over the Easter
holidays, with no changes to collection days. Please put your bin
out by 7am on your normal collection day both Good Friday
(tomorrow) and Easter Monday.
Our Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) will be running as normal
too, but may be busier than usual due to the holidays.
Super
Saturdays: get around for a pound with Wiltshire Connect
We're pleased to offer a more affordable, convenient
way to travel following the successful introduction of a demand
responsive bus service.
Wiltshire Connect is a bookable bus service operating in the Pewsey
Vale and Marlborough areas, and from Saturday 6 April until
Saturday 29 June inclusive, we're offering fares for just £1 for
all rides booked on a Saturday. Simply enter the promo code SAT24
into the Wiltshire Connect booking app to benefit from the reduced
fare.
As well as the fantastic Saturday promotion, if you book a ride
either tomorrow or Saturday and enter the promo code Easter24 into
the app, you'll receive a completely free ride on either day!
As part of our continued zero tolerance approach to
tackling fly-tipping, we've successfully prosecuted a Calne woman
who had dumped waste on a public footpath adjacent to Bank Row in
the town.
She was ordered to pay over £800 in fines, costs and compensation
after pleading guilty to fly-tipping during a hearing at Swindon
Magistrates Court last week.
Over
£580,000 to upgrade traffic lights in the county
We've been awarded £584,521.45 from the Department
for Transport’s (DfT) Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant (TSOG) fund
to improve traffic signals in the county.
The funding will be spent on improving infrastructure that has a
set of traffic lights, including both signalled traffic junctions
and pedestrian crossings.
If you’re doing a spring clean and come across any
leftover paint, check if you can donate it for reuse at your local
Household Recycling Centre (HRC).
You can donate paint if:
It is
water-based
Over half
full
In a usable
condition (still a liquid)
The paint donated to this scheme
is free for anyone to take away. It is clearly marked in a separate
yellow cabinet at the HRCs. Members of staff on site can direct you
if needed. Before collecting, you will need to fill out a short
disclaimer form which is in the cabinet.
Help to
shape Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision
in Wiltshire
If you have a child with special educational needs
and or disabilities (SEND) or if they access alternative provision
outside of mainstream schooling, we're inviting you to join online
discussion groups as the next stage of helping to shape provision
in Wiltshire.
These discussion groups, which are taking place next month, will
form part of the SEND Inclusion and Alternative Provision Strategy
(SENDIAP), with topics including preparing for the move from school
to being an adult, support and advice and the voice of the child
and their family.
We are showcasing several businesses who have
brought back into use vacant units in Trowbridge town centre using
funding from the government’s Future High Streets Fund:
The Screening Room,
a boutique cinema and bar in the basement of Parade House
H.B. Pitt, a garden
shop fitted out to a high standard with a stunning frontage
Eden Beauty & Aesthetics
Trowbridge Ltd, three beauty spaces for non-surgical
facelifts, botox and filler treatments, lash and brow
treatments and massage
Watch these videos and hear the
stories behind their ideas and unit transformations.
Grants are worth up to £10,000 and the deadline for applications
has been extended to 14 June 2024.
Share
your priorities for nature recovery in Wiltshire and Swindon –
survey closing soon!
You have a few days to complete our survey to help
us establish the nature recovery priorities for Wiltshire and
Swindon. This is part of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)
for Wiltshire and Swindon.
It takes about 15 minutes to complete but may take longer if you
wish to add multiple priorities in detail. The survey runs until
Sunday 31 March 2024.
Results from this survey will be turned into a longlist of nature
recovery priorities which will be vetted by a select working group
and a concise shortlist of priorities and measures will be
prepared.
The Wiltshire Summer Arts Programme (WSAP) is being
created to promote all the wonderful arts and culture
events/activities happening across Wiltshire throughout the summer
of 2024.
This brochure will allow members of the public, both in Wiltshire
and beyond, to find out what’s happening across the county, and how
they can get involved.
If you have an event, activity or workshop happening this summer,
we’d love the hear from you. Your event will be included in our
WSAP brochure for FREE.