Devizes Community Area Strategic Action Plan
Chairman's Foreword
The Devizes Community Area Planning Partnership is pleased to present its Strategic Action Plan for the Devizes Community Area. It brings together the community’s ideas and aspirations that were put forward for the Devizes Community Area Plan and includes priority projects that have been developed to take some of these ideas forward. We are grateful to the many local people and organisations who have contributed to the plan.
As Devizes moves into the 21st century it faces the need to grow and create new opportunities whilst at the same time retaining the character of a rural market town. Lack of space within the town centre and the poor regional road network create some of the barriers which the town faces.
The Devizes Community Area Planning Partnership is part of the vibrant community of Devizes. The town has a varied architectural and social mix ranging from the modern industrial developments forming the commercial development at the Hopton Industrial Estate through to the 11th century historic surroundings of St John’s Church. The future of Devizes is linked to a need for measured change, retaining the town’s historic market town feel whilst introducing new commercial and social activities to ensure that the town continues to attract new businesses and people.
This local strategic action plan looks at the requirements of the town and its rural hinterland over the next 5 years and will hopefully help create an environment in which future development and growth will take place to the benefit of all of the inhabitants and users of the Devizes Community Area.
The Partnership would be pleased to hear from anyone who is interested in helping to take the ideas and themes in the plan forward. Please contact either Roger Chadwick, Chairman Devizes Community Area Planning Partnership or Val Powley, Community Partnership Officer at Kennet District Council, for more details.
Follow for the Devizes Community Area 2007 - 2012 Strategic Action Plan (pdf, 707 KB)
Contact Details
Roger Chadwick rec@awdrys.co.uk
01380 732927
Val Powley
val.powley|@kennet.gov.uk or post them to the following address:
Mrs Val Powley at Kennet District Council, Browfort, Bath Road, Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 2AT. If you have any queries, please telephone me on 01380 734821.