Help shape what comes next for Hilltop Park
Hilltop Park is a great place to live. Help us make it even better by supporting the Residents’ Association before our crowdfunder closes on Friday 11 September at 9:12pm.
Our community • Our voice • Our future
Working together to protect our community and shape our future.
We represent the residents of Hilltop Park, Hilltop View and the Taylor Wimpey phases in Chippenham, Wiltshire — a community of more than 600 homes. We are a group of resident volunteers working to make the estate a better place to live.
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What we've achieved together in our first year
- £4,000 removed from the estate rent charge
- New safety cage installed around the MUGA
- Safer surface installed in the play park
- Estate Steering Group established with council, developers and residents
- Hundreds of households represented by the RA
- £14000 refunded on residents water bills across the estate
Help us keep going
A stronger voice starts close to home
Everything above was achieved by volunteers, with no funding behind us. To keep going we need to cover real costs — registering the association properly as a community interest company, paying for professional advice when an issue is too complex to take on with goodwill alone and printing and delivering the newsletter to every home. We're launching a Crowdfunder to raise it.
Crowdfunder collects and holds the money, so you can support us before the association has its own bank account.
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Newsletters
Printed and delivered to every home on the estate.
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Proper footing
Registering the association so it can act on residents' behalf.
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Expert advice
Professional help when an issue is too complex for goodwill alone.
Latest news & updates
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Where does your estate rentcharge go?
The estate rentcharge funds communal maintenance, management and future reserves, but the annual budget is only an estimate. We explain what the Hilltop Park TP1 allows the management company to recover, how charges should be reconciled with actual spending, and why the Residents’ Association is seeking clearer accounts, invoices and household calculations.
What is a Residents’ Association, and who does it answer to?
What is a Residents’ Association, who does it represent and who does it answer to? We explain how Hilltop Park RA works with the council, councillors, developers and FirstPort while remaining independent and accountable to residents.
Latest documents
All documents →Newsletter — July 2026
Our first-year newsletter: what we've achieved together, where we stand now, and our focus for the year ahead.
Minutes — Residents' Meeting 1
Minutes of the first Residents' Meeting, held on 5 September 2025 at The Cause, Chippenham, at which the constitution was approved and the committee elected. Names are redacted for publication.
Newsletter 1 — July 2025
The association's first newsletter, delivered to every home on the estate. Introduces the Residents' Association, why the estate needs one, and the drainage and handover concerns being pressed with Bloor Homes and FirstPort. An address has been redacted for publication.
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Get in touch
Have a question or something to raise? Email us at committee@hilltoppark.org.uk or join the conversation in our Facebook group.