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Dyson stepping up a gear into Automotive? What a brand to take on Tesla etc.
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I started my Nav trg at Gaydon in Nov 69 so Big H had closed by then. I was privileged to live in the OM there in 1972/73 as it was overflow accommodation for the OM at Lyneham. 18 singlies galavanting around the world and living in a country club!! Happy days.
Nobby and Percy were the barman and they were glad that the Mess had a resurrection as only 4 livers until we arrived - 2 were civil servant.
Our pubs were the Vine Tree in Norton, the Suffolk Arms in Malmesbury and the Wild Duck in Ewen near Kemble.
middlesborough - The White Hart at Ford still going and well known
I started my Nav trg at Gaydon in Nov 69 so Big H had closed by then. I was privileged to live in the OM there in 1972/73 as it was overflow accommodation for the OM at Lyneham. 18 singlies galavanting around the world and living in a country club!! Happy days.
Nobby and Percy were the barman and they were glad that the Mess had a resurrection as only 4 livers until we arrived - 2 were civil servant.
Our pubs were the Vine Tree in Norton, the Suffolk Arms in Malmesbury and the Wild Duck in Ewen near Kemble.
middlesborough - The White Hart at Ford still going and well known
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Dedication service of WAAF stained glass window in Stanton St Quintin church
Here is a reminder of the special service to be held on Sunday May 6th. Hope to see some of you there!
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Here is a reminder of the special service to be held on Sunday May 6th. Hope to see some of you there!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155609520435669&set=gm.10155583871101325&ty pe=3&ifg=1
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Hullavington Parish Council was, once again, delighted to welcome Dyson representatives Chris Hazlewood and Andy Gough to the Parish Council meeting held on 13th June.
16 parishioners also attended.
We were informed that the hangars at "E" site, to the left of the Grittleton road out of the village - although both structurally sound - required extensive repairs to the roofs.
Hangar 181, from which the grass covering had been removed many years ago, has now been re-turfed following this work.
Hangar 180 - next to it – will soon receive the same treatment and be stripped of its turf, with remedial works to the roof also being carried out, before being restored to its former grassed glory. What an undertaking!
Hangar 181 is now in the process of being fitted out ready for occupation, with Hangar 180’s fit-out to follow in due course.
Hangar 86 is expected to be in use from 18.6.2018, with 300 staff located there. Hangar 85 refurbishment has also commenced.
It was re-confirmed that Dyson will be developing electric vehicles on the site, and part of the airfield may be used to create test track facilities, however this is - of course - subject to planning and further consultation.
In addition, it was confirmed that Dyson were working on finalising the masterplan for the airfield in advance of an outline planning application being made soon. This is likely to include:
· A cafe/restaurant - for use by Dyson employees - sited close to Hangars 85 and 86.
· A Visitor Centre and other facilities located in the proximity of Hangar 89 (the old gliding hangar).
Subject to consultation there may also be a three-armed roundabout on the C1 road, approx 400 metres from the existing Wellington Place entrance as you head towards the village, in order to improve traffic flow and safety.
And - saving the best 'til last!
Again subject to consultation, there might be a three-armed roundabout at the junction of the A429/C1 road that leads to the village!
Further details re the above will be available when the planning applications have been submitted to Wiltshire Council sometime in July.
I will let you have the application numbers as soon as they are on the WC website.
16 parishioners also attended.
We were informed that the hangars at "E" site, to the left of the Grittleton road out of the village - although both structurally sound - required extensive repairs to the roofs.
Hangar 181, from which the grass covering had been removed many years ago, has now been re-turfed following this work.
Hangar 180 - next to it – will soon receive the same treatment and be stripped of its turf, with remedial works to the roof also being carried out, before being restored to its former grassed glory. What an undertaking!
Hangar 181 is now in the process of being fitted out ready for occupation, with Hangar 180’s fit-out to follow in due course.
Hangar 86 is expected to be in use from 18.6.2018, with 300 staff located there. Hangar 85 refurbishment has also commenced.
It was re-confirmed that Dyson will be developing electric vehicles on the site, and part of the airfield may be used to create test track facilities, however this is - of course - subject to planning and further consultation.
In addition, it was confirmed that Dyson were working on finalising the masterplan for the airfield in advance of an outline planning application being made soon. This is likely to include:
· A cafe/restaurant - for use by Dyson employees - sited close to Hangars 85 and 86.
· A Visitor Centre and other facilities located in the proximity of Hangar 89 (the old gliding hangar).
Subject to consultation there may also be a three-armed roundabout on the C1 road, approx 400 metres from the existing Wellington Place entrance as you head towards the village, in order to improve traffic flow and safety.
And - saving the best 'til last!
Again subject to consultation, there might be a three-armed roundabout at the junction of the A429/C1 road that leads to the village!
Further details re the above will be available when the planning applications have been submitted to Wiltshire Council sometime in July.
I will let you have the application numbers as soon as they are on the WC website.
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COMMUNICATION RECEIVED FROM DYSON.
DYSON will shortly be submitting an outline planning application for the masterplan of Hullavington Airfield. The company are keen to ensure the community have an opportunity to see the plans and ask questions. To achieve this they plan to hold presentation/drop in sessions in each of the three parish halls that are affected by the development.
The format will be a set of information/images to view with representatives from Dyson and the design team on hand to field any questions. It will be very informal.
If you want to know all about one of the biggest developments in the parish for years do come along.
As the Village Hall is undergoing maintenance at the momentthe Hullavington session will be held on Monday 13th August in the Village Church and will be open between 4pm and 7pm.
DYSON will shortly be submitting an outline planning application for the masterplan of Hullavington Airfield. The company are keen to ensure the community have an opportunity to see the plans and ask questions. To achieve this they plan to hold presentation/drop in sessions in each of the three parish halls that are affected by the development.
The format will be a set of information/images to view with representatives from Dyson and the design team on hand to field any questions. It will be very informal.
If you want to know all about one of the biggest developments in the parish for years do come along.
As the Village Hall is undergoing maintenance at the momentthe Hullavington session will be held on Monday 13th August in the Village Church and will be open between 4pm and 7pm.
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The latest Press Release from Dyson - the planning application for the MasterPlan for the airfield has been submitted to Wiltshire Council but is not yet available on line, I will post it on here when it is. I think many will find the Dyson Magazine very interesting. on.dyson.co.uk Hopefully the link will work I think you will have to copy and paste it.
PRESS RELEASE STRICTLY EMBARGOED: 00:01 BST Thursday 30th August
Dyson reveals £200m investment in Wiltshire as it embarks on the next phase of Electric Vehicle development:
Phase two of the Hullavington Airfield plan outlines a £200m investment for UK expansion. Dyson’s 400 strong automotive team have now moved onto the airfield
Plans show extensive vehicle testing facilities.
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire, UK. Following the recent occupation of the restored hangars at Hullavington Airfield, Dyson has outlined the next phase of the development of the campus.
Hullavington Phase Two:
The phase two plan outlines the next stage in the airfield’s development and would take Dyson’s investment to £200m. The planning application includes over ten miles of vehicle test tracks for vehicle development and verification. In addition it outlines 45,000sqm of new development space which could accommodate over 2,000 people as well as a café; sports centre; recreation space; and supporting technical facilities.
The testing track proposals include:
Dynamic Handling Track – a specialised track to assess and tune all aspects of ride, handling, steering and brakes
Vehicle Stability Dynamic Platform – a large asphalt covered area for testing vehicle manoeuvrability
Off Road Route – a mixed driving route that simulates the challenges of driving off road through soft and
varied terrain
Hill and Handling Road Route – a simulation of a challenging fast road route incorporating corners of differing severity and changes in altitude
Fast Road Route –a track to test a vehicle up to its maximum speed as well as the functionality of advanced driver assistance systems
Test Slopes – differing gradients for testing powertrain functionality
Jim Rowan, Dyson, CEO, said: “Our growing automotive team is now working from Dyson’s state-of-the-art hangars at Hullavington Airfield. It will quickly become a world-class vehicle testing campus where we hope to invest £200m, creating more high-skilled jobs for Britain. We are now firmly focused on the next stage of our automotive project strengthening our credentials as a global research and development organisation”
About Hullavington
Construction of Hullavington Airfield commenced in 1936 as the Air Ministry set about developing a Flight Training School. In the early days its runways were grass and its first aircraft biplanes, but Hullavington quickly expanded and became a significant airfield.
With the beginning of the Second World War, top officers from allied nations came to Hullavington to share strategies and deepen their understanding of how to fly aircraft to the point of limit. By 1940 Hullavington was a base for aircraft from Mosquitoes, Spitfires and Lancasters to Douglas Bostons, North American Mitchells and GAL Hotspur troop-carrying gliders. By the end of the war there were over 1,000 aircraft based on the airfield.
The airfield has architectural significance, bringing together the architectural influences of Blomfield and Lutyens, Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus school. It is probably the most representative surviving example of Royal Air Force architecture of the post 1934 "Expansion Period".
A branch of the Met Office was stationed at Hullavington during WW2. A balloons and aircraft were used to collect weather data for the Met Office. The Balloon Operations Squadron was disbanded in 1995 and the last RAF balloon flew over Hullavington on 29th March 1995.
The Parachute Packing Unit was also located at Hullavington, with vast parachute drying ovens within
the hangars. Production lines were staffed by smartly dressed teams, carefully packing the parachutes away – safely – for their next exercise.
Since 1995, the airfield has been largely inactive until 2016 when Dyson purchased it with cross-Government support. The barracks are currently occupied by 9 Theatre Logistic Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (RLC)
- ENDS-
Notes to Editors
About Dyson
Dyson is a global technology company with engineering and testing operations in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and the UK. Dyson employs over 12,000 people globally including 4,500 engineers and scientists – with an increasing proportion in South East Asia where production and operations also take place. Total UK headcount has increased 2.5 times over the last five years alone to 4,800.
Dyson is realising ambitious plans to develop new technologies with global teams focused on the development of solid state battery cells, high-speed electric motors, vision systems, machine learning technologies, and AI.
Dyson’s 67 acre campus in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, is also home to the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, which opened in September 2017. Dyson is making a £31m investment into UK higher education to help overcome the shortage of engineers in the UK. The four year degree programme, free of tuition fees, covers the fundamentals of engineering in years one and two. It delivers electronics and mechanical engineering content in years three and four – all alongside a paid job within Dyson’s research and development team, working on real products, with leading engineers and scientists.
About Dyson’s Battery Electric Car
In September 2017 Dyson revealed that it has been working on a vehicle over the previous three years. It announced that it would be investing £2bn into the development of the BEV for launch in 2021. The project builds on Dyson’s existing expertise in solid state batteries, motors, vision systems, robotics, HVAC and aerodynamics. It represents an ambitious project on tight timelines.
Dyson is currently recruiting an additional 300 automotive roles.
Local information
Alongside plans for the campus, Dyson has outlined road improvements, to improve safety and traffic flow on the A429. A new three-arm roundabout is proposed from the C1 Hullavington Road in the north eastern part of the site. This in turn will connect to a new three arm roundabout on the A429 via a new realigned link road. The connecting link road between the two roundabouts will replace the existing alignment of the C1 Hullavington Road, which is narrow and has tight bends. The old alignment will be retained as a service road for the existing properties/businesses on the north side of Hullavington Road.Report to moderator
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PRESS RELEASE STRICTLY EMBARGOED: 00:01 BST Thursday 30th August
Dyson reveals £200m investment in Wiltshire as it embarks on the next phase of Electric Vehicle development:
Phase two of the Hullavington Airfield plan outlines a £200m investment for UK expansion. Dyson’s 400 strong automotive team have now moved onto the airfield
Plans show extensive vehicle testing facilities.
Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire, UK. Following the recent occupation of the restored hangars at Hullavington Airfield, Dyson has outlined the next phase of the development of the campus.
Together with Sterling Prize winning architect Chris Wilkinson, Dyson is already restoring and enhancing the airfield, carefully breathing life back into the historic World War Two hangars to create state-of-the-art engineering work spaces.
To date, Dyson has invested £84m into its new technology centre with the restoration of the first two 1938 hangars. 400 members of Dyson automotive team have now moved into the advanced automotive space and a further three buildings are on course for delivery over the coming months, providing an additional 15,000m2 of testing space.Hullavington Phase Two:
The phase two plan outlines the next stage in the airfield’s development and would take Dyson’s investment to £200m. The planning application includes over ten miles of vehicle test tracks for vehicle development and verification. In addition it outlines 45,000sqm of new development space which could accommodate over 2,000 people as well as a café; sports centre; recreation space; and supporting technical facilities.
The testing track proposals include:
Dynamic Handling Track – a specialised track to assess and tune all aspects of ride, handling, steering and brakes
Vehicle Stability Dynamic Platform – a large asphalt covered area for testing vehicle manoeuvrability
Off Road Route – a mixed driving route that simulates the challenges of driving off road through soft and
varied terrain
Hill and Handling Road Route – a simulation of a challenging fast road route incorporating corners of differing severity and changes in altitude
Fast Road Route –a track to test a vehicle up to its maximum speed as well as the functionality of advanced driver assistance systems
Test Slopes – differing gradients for testing powertrain functionality
Jim Rowan, Dyson, CEO, said: “Our growing automotive team is now working from Dyson’s state-of-the-art hangars at Hullavington Airfield. It will quickly become a world-class vehicle testing campus where we hope to invest £200m, creating more high-skilled jobs for Britain. We are now firmly focused on the next stage of our automotive project strengthening our credentials as a global research and development organisation”
About Hullavington
Construction of Hullavington Airfield commenced in 1936 as the Air Ministry set about developing a Flight Training School. In the early days its runways were grass and its first aircraft biplanes, but Hullavington quickly expanded and became a significant airfield.
With the beginning of the Second World War, top officers from allied nations came to Hullavington to share strategies and deepen their understanding of how to fly aircraft to the point of limit. By 1940 Hullavington was a base for aircraft from Mosquitoes, Spitfires and Lancasters to Douglas Bostons, North American Mitchells and GAL Hotspur troop-carrying gliders. By the end of the war there were over 1,000 aircraft based on the airfield.
The airfield has architectural significance, bringing together the architectural influences of Blomfield and Lutyens, Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus school. It is probably the most representative surviving example of Royal Air Force architecture of the post 1934 "Expansion Period".
A branch of the Met Office was stationed at Hullavington during WW2. A balloons and aircraft were used to collect weather data for the Met Office. The Balloon Operations Squadron was disbanded in 1995 and the last RAF balloon flew over Hullavington on 29th March 1995.
The Parachute Packing Unit was also located at Hullavington, with vast parachute drying ovens within
the hangars. Production lines were staffed by smartly dressed teams, carefully packing the parachutes away – safely – for their next exercise.
Since 1995, the airfield has been largely inactive until 2016 when Dyson purchased it with cross-Government support. The barracks are currently occupied by 9 Theatre Logistic Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (RLC)
- ENDS-
Notes to Editors
About Dyson
Dyson is a global technology company with engineering and testing operations in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and the UK. Dyson employs over 12,000 people globally including 4,500 engineers and scientists – with an increasing proportion in South East Asia where production and operations also take place. Total UK headcount has increased 2.5 times over the last five years alone to 4,800.
Dyson is realising ambitious plans to develop new technologies with global teams focused on the development of solid state battery cells, high-speed electric motors, vision systems, machine learning technologies, and AI.
Dyson’s 67 acre campus in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, is also home to the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, which opened in September 2017. Dyson is making a £31m investment into UK higher education to help overcome the shortage of engineers in the UK. The four year degree programme, free of tuition fees, covers the fundamentals of engineering in years one and two. It delivers electronics and mechanical engineering content in years three and four – all alongside a paid job within Dyson’s research and development team, working on real products, with leading engineers and scientists.
About Dyson’s Battery Electric Car
In September 2017 Dyson revealed that it has been working on a vehicle over the previous three years. It announced that it would be investing £2bn into the development of the BEV for launch in 2021. The project builds on Dyson’s existing expertise in solid state batteries, motors, vision systems, robotics, HVAC and aerodynamics. It represents an ambitious project on tight timelines.
Dyson is currently recruiting an additional 300 automotive roles.
Local information
Alongside plans for the campus, Dyson has outlined road improvements, to improve safety and traffic flow on the A429. A new three-arm roundabout is proposed from the C1 Hullavington Road in the north eastern part of the site. This in turn will connect to a new three arm roundabout on the A429 via a new realigned link road. The connecting link road between the two roundabouts will replace the existing alignment of the C1 Hullavington Road, which is narrow and has tight bends. The old alignment will be retained as a service road for the existing properties/businesses on the north side of Hullavington Road.Report to moderator
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The latest outline planning application submitted by Dyson for the Masterplan for Hullavington airfield is now available on the Wiltshire Council Website. The application number is 18/08271/OUT
Cut and paste Search planning applications - Wiltshire Council into your browser and then insert the application number in the relevant box.
Cut and paste Search planning applications - Wiltshire Council into your browser and then insert the application number in the relevant box.
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I see that Dyson has just announced that his new electric car will be manufactured at a new factory he is going to build in Singapore. Another wonderful move by the Brexit supporting Dyson...
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Only way he can make it cheap enough to sell at an affordable price of double the competition.
PN,
In his announcement he says that cost was nothing to do with it.
In his announcement he says that cost was nothing to do with it.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
As Mandy would have said.
To be honest though, as the calculator market took off Singapore was at the forefront making a well engineered calculator for HP. Gold plated pins even.
To be honest though, as the calculator market took off Singapore was at the forefront making a well engineered calculator for HP. Gold plated pins even.
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The locals are objecting to his plans for 60 jet flights and 300 rotary a year, pollution and noise... they should have been there 50 odd years ago!
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The locals are objecting to his plans for 60 jet flights and 300 rotary a year, pollution and noise... they should have been there 50 odd years ago!
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From this in 2016
To this in 2018
At the meeting of the Parish Council, held on Wednesday 10th April, the PC was pleased to welcome six members of the team from Dyson who are involved with the restoration of "our airfield", and four members of the public.
Amongst the Dyson members present were Ollie Blair, from the Dyson Communications Office, who attended the Dyson presentation held in the church last year. Ollie was instrumental in getting the "on
yson" magazine printed (usually only available online) so that hard copies were available for those in the parish without computers. The magazines have been distributed around the parish and gratefully received - more a family heirloom than a company magazine! Copies have also been given to the Museums in Malmesbury and Chippenham and the Wiltshire Records Office.
We were also introduced to Steve Deakin, the Facilities Manager at Hullavington who, when alerted to the fact that the stile at the back of the Village Green - on land in the ownership of Dyson - was in need of urgent repair, ensured that the work was carried out to an excellent standard. Thanks were conveyed to Ollie and Steve.
It was confirmed that the various works covered by approved planning application 17/02344/FUL were nearing completion with hangar 86 (before and after photos above) occupied and hangar 85 expected to be occupied in June of this year.
Hangars 180 and 181 are also expected to be brought into use shortly following the re-turfing of the hangar roofs.
It was explained that the Masterplan for the airfield - application no. 18/08271/OUT - which was submitted to Wiltshire Council (WC) in August 2018 was still under consideration by the Planning Officer!
This covers many aspects of the complete restoration and development of the whole site and, over the next few years, separate applications for various projects within the Masterplan will be submitted for approval.
One of these is application no. 18/08273/FUL, also submitted in August 2018 for the "Provision of new access arrangements to site, comprising a re-aligned section of C1 road and new roundabouts at both the junction of the A429/C1 roads and on the C1 road".
It is hoped that the decision regarding this application will be made shortly and will mean that there will be a new roundabout on the A429 which will make it much safer to exit the junction by the Karting Hangar - an improvement that is at least 10 years overdue.
The latest planning application 19/02543/FUL, submitted on March 12th, is for the "Construction of new hangar adjacent to Hangars 85 & 86 and associated works, extension to existing runway and provision of new runway lighting, and erection of new airfield fencing".
The decision date for this is 11th June but I suspect that it will also be delayed as has been the case with all the other applications!
This application has caused concern to some in the village and parishioner Sandra Barnes asked various relevant questions all of which were answered satisfactorily.
Sandra has established, by checking with the CAA website, that an application has been received by them from Dyson in relation to the development of the runway. This application states that they hope to have various licences in place and the runway operational by April 2020. It is also stated that they forecast up to 60 fixed wing aircraft movements a year and 300 helicopter movements a year. Hullavington Parish Council supports the application, with reservations, as it considers that it lacks detail. All the planning applications referred to above can be viewed on line on the Wiltshire Council website: wiltshire.gov.uk
To this in 2018
At the meeting of the Parish Council, held on Wednesday 10th April, the PC was pleased to welcome six members of the team from Dyson who are involved with the restoration of "our airfield", and four members of the public.
Amongst the Dyson members present were Ollie Blair, from the Dyson Communications Office, who attended the Dyson presentation held in the church last year. Ollie was instrumental in getting the "on
yson" magazine printed (usually only available online) so that hard copies were available for those in the parish without computers. The magazines have been distributed around the parish and gratefully received - more a family heirloom than a company magazine! Copies have also been given to the Museums in Malmesbury and Chippenham and the Wiltshire Records Office.We were also introduced to Steve Deakin, the Facilities Manager at Hullavington who, when alerted to the fact that the stile at the back of the Village Green - on land in the ownership of Dyson - was in need of urgent repair, ensured that the work was carried out to an excellent standard. Thanks were conveyed to Ollie and Steve.
It was confirmed that the various works covered by approved planning application 17/02344/FUL were nearing completion with hangar 86 (before and after photos above) occupied and hangar 85 expected to be occupied in June of this year.
Hangars 180 and 181 are also expected to be brought into use shortly following the re-turfing of the hangar roofs.
It was explained that the Masterplan for the airfield - application no. 18/08271/OUT - which was submitted to Wiltshire Council (WC) in August 2018 was still under consideration by the Planning Officer!
This covers many aspects of the complete restoration and development of the whole site and, over the next few years, separate applications for various projects within the Masterplan will be submitted for approval.
One of these is application no. 18/08273/FUL, also submitted in August 2018 for the "Provision of new access arrangements to site, comprising a re-aligned section of C1 road and new roundabouts at both the junction of the A429/C1 roads and on the C1 road".
It is hoped that the decision regarding this application will be made shortly and will mean that there will be a new roundabout on the A429 which will make it much safer to exit the junction by the Karting Hangar - an improvement that is at least 10 years overdue.
The latest planning application 19/02543/FUL, submitted on March 12th, is for the "Construction of new hangar adjacent to Hangars 85 & 86 and associated works, extension to existing runway and provision of new runway lighting, and erection of new airfield fencing".
The decision date for this is 11th June but I suspect that it will also be delayed as has been the case with all the other applications!
This application has caused concern to some in the village and parishioner Sandra Barnes asked various relevant questions all of which were answered satisfactorily.
Sandra has established, by checking with the CAA website, that an application has been received by them from Dyson in relation to the development of the runway. This application states that they hope to have various licences in place and the runway operational by April 2020. It is also stated that they forecast up to 60 fixed wing aircraft movements a year and 300 helicopter movements a year. Hullavington Parish Council supports the application, with reservations, as it considers that it lacks detail. All the planning applications referred to above can be viewed on line on the Wiltshire Council website: wiltshire.gov.uk
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