The National Trust, Britain's biggest conservation charity, with well over a million members is to move out of plush London offices and establish a single central administrative centre in Swindon sometime in 2003/4.

Experts in all aspects of conservation of historic and contemporary buildings and their contents, and the preservation of important tracts of land across the UK for the benefit of the nation, currently based in offices in London, Cirencester, Westbury, Melksham will come together in Swindon.

One hundred and twenty positions involved with adminstration, finance and fundraising will be moved to the town. How many of those in the posts will come to the town is unknown.

A temporary office will be set up in Swindon until a permanent site is identified. The trust's director general Fiona Reynolds has been quoted that the new HQ will be a 'building that the Trust can be proud of' which meets the needs of staff, uses the charity's resources most effectively, while demonstrating good environmental principles in the way it operates.

Sir Norman Foster's award winning Renault building is now available in Westlea, after the company decided to move its national parts distribution centre following the takeover of Nissan. Swindonlink suggests the Trust buys it.