Apps costing £160,000 made by the council to tell people more about Wiltshire towns are set to launch.

The Heritage Trail app which tells tourists more about historic town centres is to be launched in several places at the end of June.  

The council say they are looking to include Salisbury, Bradford on Avon, Chippenham, Cricklade, Devizes and Warminster in the first lunch phase in June.  

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This will then be followed by Trowbridge, Marlborough, Pewsey and Tisbury later in the year.

The What’s On In Wiltshire app which gives lists of events in towns, will come a step closer to launch once negotiation with suppliers for the app finishes in August.  

There has previously been controversy around the apps, which both have a budget of £80,000, as Councillor Brian Matthew has argued the information on the apps can already be found elsewhere. 

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He asked in a council meeting last year: “Given Wiltshire already has a website for its towns called Visitwiltshire.co.uk which is paid for by the various Town Council’s Tourist Information Centres can the Wiltshire Council version being discussed today be described as an unneeded and unwarranted vanity project?” 

A council officer replied admitting there was overlap between the app and the website but said “the functionality of that website is not ideal and you have to be a member to advertise an event”.