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Michael Wills MP

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   Michael talks about preserving Swindon's heritage
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This is an interesting email. It’s an email from a councillor in Swindon, asking for my help, actually, with an issue that’s very important to the long term future of the town. And that’s the preservation of the town’s heritage. It’s to do with a round table, a turn table that’s actually in a car park opposite the Designer Outlet Village at the moment and this is a proposal to try to get it renovated. And a councillor has contacted me for help to sort out how we can do that. And as always anything to do with heritage is very complicated. It involves a lot of different players, the borough council, often private companies, funding bodies like English Heritage. There is quite a lot of detailed, complex negotiations to go through and the council’s after my help. So I said I’d be delighted to give it anything I can because the town is changing so fast that preserving our heritage is really crucial.  Just down the road from where this particular turntable is there is of course the Mechanic’s Institute which ever since I’ve been the MP has been a long standing indictment of how difficult it is to get much needed changes.  I think everybody recognises how enormously important the Mechanics Institute is to the town. It’s been very difficult to find a long term solution. And politicians for the last ten to fifteen years have been beating their brains out trying to work out what to do about it. It’s still an ongoing problem and I’m still working with Anne Snelgrove and many, many other partners in the town to try to get a solution for it. One thing I’m absolutely convinced about is if we don’t preserve our heritage we take a large part of the heart out of Swindon.                     

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