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Chairman’s Report – May 2025

If you are reading this before the 1st of May then I hope that you have been able to register to vote and will be voting.  There are candidates to choose from in both the Unitary (Wiltshire) and Town Council elections.  The returning officer and team are efficient and you should be able to find out the results within a couple of days at most. The Town Council Office will publish results.

My apologies for not getting the Chairman’s report in last month, I shall be brief this month.  My first task is to thank the volunteers who went out to Litter Pick, one and all.

At the last town council meeting we discussed:

  • The plans for the Annual Town Meeting, which will have happened on the 23rd April.
  • Planning applications.
  • A request to use part of the Salisbury Street car park for a small funfair on the evening of the Mere Carnival.  We turned the plan, as presented, down and asked the Carnival and Funfair to consider something taking less of the car park.
  • We adopted the recommendations of a working group meeting on the effectiveness of our Internal Control Measures.
  • Heard from our Clerk on the allotment rent audit.

The next Town Council meeting will be on 12th May, with the newly elected Town Councillors attending.  The Venue will be the Andy Young Pavilion.