A SCHEME to help restore Warminster’s Victorian Athenaeum Centre has been backed by members of the town council’s finance and audit committee.
They voted on Monday to give £10,000 towards plans to restore the Grade 2 listed centre in Warminster High Street.
Members recommended that the full council should also support the £400,000 scheme when it meets on Monday, March 22.
Cllr Tony Nicklin, chairman of the Warminster Athenaeum Centre Trust, asked for the cash for a first stage proposal to ask the National Lottery Commission for a community grant towards the project.
He told the committee the Trust wants to pay the fees of professionals to move forward with its plans to completely restore the centre and build a new extension.