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A new investment programme of £1m a year will begin in the coming months to encourage people back to Wiltshire's town centres and high streets.

Wiltshire Council's Cabinet will consider a new investment and regeneration plan for high streets in all 18 Wiltshire towns and its city, Salisbury, plus three large villages, Pewsey, Tisbury and Downton.

Business leaders can now register for the second Wiltshire-based Help to Grow: Management course, starting in February

A Swindon resident has been ordered to pay £440 in fines after giving her household waste to an unlicensed waste collector, who then fly-tipped it in Lyneham, in the Wiltshire Council authority area

Survey work is set to commence on Fisherton Street, one of the key areas in Salisbury to receive investment from the government's Future High Streets Fund. These include topographic, utilities and drainage surveys.

The prosecution was brought following a history of poor compliance and a succession of interventions with the business to try to improve standards without success.

The work will take place from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday and it's anticipated it will take around three months to complete

There are now less than two weeks to take part in the Wiltshire Local Plan review consultation, and for people to have their say on where future developments may be built in the county in the next 15 years.

An e-volunteering project has resulted in a collection of historic postcards becoming the latest addition to an online heritage mapping resource

An additional online public webinar is being held this Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 11am, to provide a further opportunity for residents and businesses to find out more about the consultation on the Future Chippenham distributor road route options.