LOCAL artists have organised an auction raise funds towards the Stop the Sprawl judicial review over the Future Chippenham scheme.

Thirty local artists have donated more than 100 works to help raise part of the £10,000 needed if Dr Helen Stride's application for judicial review is approved.

It is expected that a decision from the Cardiff court on whether or not it can proceed with the legal action against Wiltshire Council, soon.

The auction will be held on Sunday, December 19 between 11.30am and 6pm at The Cause Arts and Music Venue in Chippenham. The auction itself will begin at 3.30pm.

Appalled by the Future Chippenham plan in the south of the town, local artist Julie-May Wheeler organized the auction.

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“I am amazed by how many artists have responded in such a short timescale and I feel overwhelmed by their generosity,” said Julie-May.

“It has been a privilege to get to meet, chat with and receive works from well over 30 artists.”

Julie-May realised there was a strong creative force of artists in and around the town who are concerned about “the loss of our natural environment”.

“They are all concerned about the loss of our natural environment, about the challenge of climate change, and wish to do what they can, however small, to support those opposing unsustainable development across green field sites,” she continued.

The artworks are from people old and young, by professional artists, and by people who paint for pleasure.

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There are works by the likes of Michael Pennie and some older works by significant artists from the 40s and 50s such as Barbara Greg and her husband Norman Janes.

There is a range of pieces by their contemporaries John Nash, Lorna Kell, Muirhead Bone, and Allin Braun.

There are also contributions by more contemporary artists such as sculptor Phillippa Macarthur, documentary photographer Jane Turner, ceramicists Jo Taylor and Sonja Kuratle, photographer and journalist Saran Singleton, illustrator and animator Caroline Rudge, printer and illustrator Andrew Macdonald, painter of landscapes and buildings, Bob Rudd RI, fine artist in watercolours, Jennifer Rudd and Syrah Arnold, artist, and arts facilitator.

There are over 100 donations from a wide range of media also including YarnArt, textile work and jewelry.

Save Chippenham claims that the council acted unlawfully in its decision to press-on with plans to build a road, funded by Homes England’s Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF).

Wiltshire Council has said that it plans to robustly defend its position and that scheme will respond to the outcome of the local plan review which will "determine the extent of development in the Chippenham area not Future Chippenham".