CIVIC leaders are backing plans to build a centre for west Wiltshire's growing Moroccan community.
Trowbridge has the second largest concentration of Moroccans in the UK and ethnic leaders have asked the Home Office for a grant to build a purpose-built hall.
West Wiltshire MP Andrew Murrison is backing plans to build a centre for 300
members of the Moroccan Community Association.
The hall is earmarked for empty land at Bridge House, Stallard Street, Trowbridge and will cost £1.2m.
Jilali Bettioui,
chairman of the Moroccan Community Association, who has lived in Trowbridge for 30 years said: "Because we don't smoke or drink we have nowhere to go and this hall would give us the chance to meet and talk and get to know each other."
Dr Murrison said: "I hope the Home Office will recognise the significance of this project and lend it its active support and I am also hopeful that it will be able to help with funding."
Now members of the Moroccan Community Association are planning their own meeting with the Home Office to put their case forward.
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