Public Toilets are now open!

22nd June 2026 / News archive

We are pleased to announce that Chippenham Town Council has refurbished the public toilets in Borough Parade, and they are now open.

As a result of community feedback highlighting the lack of adequate public toilets within Chippenham, the Town Council has taken over the management of the Borough Parade facility from Wiltshire Council, which has been closed for approximately ten years.

The upgraded toilets contain two individual cubicles, incorporate accessible and baby changing facilities, you won’t even need to spend a penny as they are free to use. The toilets will be open from 8am until 8pm.

The Mayor of Chippenham, Councillor Matthew Bragg said, “I am delighted to see these public toilets open for our local community and visitors to use. Their location in the centre of town will make it very easy for people to use.”

More exciting news to follow as later in the summer, the Timber Street toilet will be replaced with a new model.

Photograph of Matt Kirby, Deputy Chief Executive, Will Tidmarsh, Head of Environmental Services, and Mayor of Chippenham, Cllr Matthew Bragg, standing in front of a newly refurbished toilets in Borough Parade Car Park, holding a large red ribbon for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Building features brown wooden siding, black doors with accessibility and restroom signs, and a clear blue sky overhead.Photograph of Matt Kirby, Deputy Chief Executive, Will Tidmarsh, Head of Environmental Services, and Mayor of Chippenham, Cllr Matthew Bragg, standing in front of a newly refurbished toilets in Borough Parade Car Park, cutting a large red ribbon for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Building features brown wooden siding, black doors with accessibility and restroom signs, and a clear blue sky overhead.Photograph of Matt Kirby, Deputy Chief Executive, Will Tidmarsh, Head of Environmental Services, and Mayor of Chippenham, Cllr Matthew Bragg, standing in front of a newly refurbished toilets in Borough Parade Car Park. Building features brown wooden siding, black doors with accessibility and restroom signs, and a clear blue sky overhead.
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📻 We're delighted that our exhibition, "Wiltshire & the World: John Aubrey and the Quest for Knowledge", is being featured on the Ben Prater Morning Show on BBC Wiltshire all this week.

Tune in to hear historian Louise Ryland-Epton explore the remarkable life and achievements of John Aubrey, one of Wiltshire's most fascinating historical figures, 400 years after his birth in Easton Piercy. Today's link ⬇️

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We have reduced our carbon emissions from our activities and services by 28.7% since 2019, according to our latest appraisal, covering 2024–2025.

Since we began measuring our emissions, we have made a number of changes to reduce our impact on the environment. These include replacing the LPG heating at Stanley Park with a heat pump and solar panels, switching to renewable energy suppliers, installing more energy-efficient heating and lighting, improving insulation in our buildings, and beginning the transition to electric vehicles and HVO fuel.

These measures form part of our Climate Action Plan, which sets out how we will achieve our commitment to become a net carbon zero organisation by 2030.

There is more work to do. Our next assessment will include further reductions from replacing gas heating at the Town Hall and Neeld Community & Arts Centre with heat pumps, helping us to remove fossil fuel heating from our buildings.

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