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Search the Public Notice PortalA Town Hall in Wiltshire has been given consent to fly a Pride flag.
It won permission as part of an application for advertising consent that also involves the flying of the flags for White Ribbon Day, Holocaust Memorial, Progress Pride, Remembrance, and Emergency Services Day.
With permission granted, Chippenham Town Council will be able to fly the flags on a flagpole outside the town's civic offices.
The council had to apply for advertising consent because the flags are not ones that are automatically permitted under current legislation.
Examples of permitted flags include the Union Flag, the St George's Cross, and the Wiltshire flag.
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The Pride flag is also permitted, but not the Progress Pride flag, which adds a chevron of colours to the traditional rainbow stripe design to include people of colour, trans and intersex communities, and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
The Pride Progress flag will be flown on the first and last days of June, and again on Chippenham Pride day, which will be held on June 13 and 14, and Wiltshire and Swindon Pride day, which takes place on the second weekend of August.
The Emergency Services Day flag will be flown on September 9, and the White Ribbon Flag will be flown at the end of November. The Lest We Forget flag will be flown over the Remembrance Period following consultation with the Royal British Legion, although on Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day it will be replaced by the Union Flag.
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The Holocaust Memorial Flag will be flown at half mast on January 27. The Ukrainian flag - which does not need advertising consent - will be flown every Monday, and on August 24 - Ukrainian Day of Independence.
The Wiltshire Flag will be flown on Wiltshire Day, June 5, and the Union Flag will be flown for both of the King's birthdays, along with the birthdays of Prince William, and the Queen.
The Red Ensign will be flown on September 3 to mark Merchant Navy Day, and the flag of St George will be flown on April 23 - St George's Day.
In February, Royal Wootton Bassett town council applied to Wiltshire Council for permission to fly the Progress Pride flag throughout June in 2026, having inadvertently broken the law in 2025.
Consent was granted in April.
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