Melksham Town Centre Consultation ..... Melksham Area "Moving Ahead" "YOUR" Community Plan .....

Wiltshire County Council, in partnership with West Wiltshire District Council, Melksham Town Council, and Melksham First, is developing a programme of consultation on traffic and environmental improvements in the town centre. This leaflet tells you about the first stage of the programme, at the junction of the High Street and Church Street.

Last year several meetings and a public exhibition were held, to seek local people’s views. Most people were in favour of traffic and environmental improvements in the town centre. There was support particularly for widening the pavements, reducing traffic speeds, and encouraging through-traffic to use the by-pass.

Following these consultations, a programme of improvements is being developed. The first phase focuses on the junction of the High Street and Church Street, and is scheduled for implementation in Autumn 2003.

The second phase will focus on the Market Place, and will be the subject of further public consultations in the autumn.

Melksham Area "Moving Ahead"
"YOUR" Community Plan

On the 16th May 2002 The Melksham Area Community Plan was
sent out with the "Melksham News" to approximately 11,000
households in the Melksham Area.

If you did not receive a plan then we have made it available to view here.
Just click on the cover image to the right and use the links
to navigate the plan.

Alternatively copies are available from Carolyn Beale,
Tel 01225 899265 or email: carolynbeale@melksham1st.org.uk
Melksham's Community Planning Coordinators.

If you want to find out more about Melksham 1st and how you or
your organisation can make a difference in Melksham contact:

Ian Bertram, Chair of Melksham 1st
email: melkshamfirst@melksham1st.org.uk


If you want advice on putting together a project around one or
more of the themes in this Community Plan contact:

Carolyn Beale.
Tel 01225 899265 or email: carolynbeale@melksham1st.org.uk

You can also contact both these people via the Melksham Town Council
offices in Melksham Town Hall:

Tel: 01225 704187 Fax: 01225 707858
e-mail: townhall@melkshamtown.co.uk
internet: www.melkshamtown.co.uk

For information and data relevant to the Community Plan process
visit the Swindon and Wiltshire Intelligence Network

The initiative is sponsored by
the SW Regional Development Agency and the Countryside Agency:

Sally Rackard Tel: 0117 933 0202
email: sally.rackard@southwestrda.org.uk

Rebecca Frost Tel: 0117 973 9966
email: rebecca.frost@countryside.gov.uk

Many Thanks to Ian Bertram (email: ibertram@aol.com) for all his work in the production of this plan.
Also to all of the local people who have given their time and contributed to the plan's content.
Design: Colin Harrison Designs (01225 707659 email: colinh@chdesign.co.uk).
Photographs: Amanda Tucker, Melksham News and Colin Harrison.