Chapel Green
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Let's fill this gap with something we want!
- Update from Maggy Daniell, 11/5/26
Our Aim:
YOUR TOWN, YOUR HIGH STREET
The Chapel of St. Lawrence is a heritage treasure. It is now almost in the gracious setting it deserves.
We know you love this improved view, and don't want it infilled by more dense development.
Many of you have said you want a community green here. It can happen if we all work together, and quickly.
To manage such a project, we are inaugurating Chapel Green Association on the 29th of April. If you show your commitment by becoming members and then giving donations, large or small, grant-giving bodies will have confidence there is widespread support within the town.
With the help of grants, we would be in a position to buy the site, and start to turn your aspirations into reality. Right now that might sound like a challenge! But as a community, we can do it.
Not all of this is under our own control, so if we can't get beyond the first stage we have made provision in our Constitution to return donations to Members.
Support the Project!
Contact us directly if you want to become a member and make a donation.
A portal for direct donations on this website will appear in due course.
Email address
How it all began
One Sunday in February, looking through the viewing gap in the boards fencing off 3 High Street, Maggy and Lucinda agreed it would be tragic if was built on again, as it was the perfect place for a community green. They immediately started a campaign to oppose the planning application that had just gone live.
It helped spread some awareness, but was too late in the process to be effective. Rather than abandon the idea, they looked at ways to involve the residents and see if enough money could be raised, through community donations and grant funding, to buy the site and make the dream come true.
After nightmarish weeks of struggling with bureaucracy and Catch-22 rules, they decided neither charity nor community company was suitable for this stage and so the Chapel Green Association was conceived. It is to be formally inaugurated at the public meeting on 29th April. If you want the green, then become a member!
Maggy Daniell has a long record of campaigning and starting community projects.
Lucilla Phillips was an active member of the civic trust that helped preserve Warminster’s heritage.
They were backed in this by two significant people:
Oliver Dooley grew up in Warminster and is currently studying for a Masters in Wildlife Conservation. A welcome younger supporter, he made time to create the website.
Hilary Jackson (despite the surrounding boards) created the charming watercolour to enable us to visualise how it could be.
Others also helped in various ways, not least by moral support and backing the idea from the beginning:
Our youngest, at six months was Iris WT, and our oldest, at 101, was John W.
In between we had:
Mike J, David OC, Celia L, Tony C, Gerry C, Linda P, Vivienne L, Mike F, Jane L, Mark T, Dorothy S, Louise S, Sarah NS, Danny H, Annie P, Jetteke C and Penny W.
And others from local shops:
Matt, Carllee, John, Gary, Ben, Tony, Tracy, Ivan, Madalena, Melvyn, Wayne, Gaynor, Tyler, Natalie and Janet.
Thanks to you all.