Blunsdon: The garage behind The Ferns in Lower Village could be demolished, and the summer house in the garden moved to allow a second house to be built on the garden of the property. If approved, the three-bedroom, two-storey house will be built to the east of The Ferns which will have its garden divided to provide the new house with an outdoor space.
Broadgreen: The construction of an indoor sports pavilion and a new bowling green at the County Ground sports complex has come several steps closer.
Swindon Town Community Foundation which is leading the project has had approval from planners at Euclid Street for its traffic management plan, construction phase plan and tree management plan. They were all conditions set when the club got permission to reconfigure the bowling green and put an indoor sports pavilion with football and other pitches laid out between the cricket ground and the athletics stadium.
Blagrove: Grant UK, a heating engineering firm, has got the go-ahead from planners to change the way it lights and heats two units in the Europark estate in Frankland Road.
The company will be able to put electricity solar panels on the roof of another unit A and B, and put in two oil tanks behind bunds and add external pellet hoppers to carry biomass fuel for boilers to be sited internally.
Kingshill: The division of one house, which was originally two, back into separate homes has been approved. Caroline Maynard has been given the go ahead to redivide 2 and 4 Grosvenor Road, a pair of 1930s semis back into two houses, dividing the upper floor and the garden. The ground floor was not knocked through and does not need re-separating.
South Marston: The garden to the front and side of the Old Post Office in Thornhill Road could be given over to a separate house.
Roger and Jackie Sansum have applied for permission to put up a two-storey, three-bedroom house on the large plot that goes with their home.
South Marston Parish Council has not objected to the proposal but it did note some concerns: “Some potential issues were noted with hedge and fence lines on the plans that might obscure sightlines for pedestrians or vehicles exiting the site. We would welcome a rural frontage, that is, low hedges.
“Additionally, we noted the slightly angled orientation of the proposed dwelling compared with the neighboring property at the Old Post Office. Altering the orientation, without a significant shift in the dwelling footprint, would overcome a concern that the new house was protruding beyond a line between the two neighboring houses and might have an impact on the sight line around the roadway bend. We would also ask that the finish and decoration of the property is in keeping with those in the locality.”
Extensions: Applications have been lodged to build extensions to homes, or to build outbuildings and garages or convert them to habitable rooms at: 17 Greenwood Grove, Taw Hill; 479 Cricklade Road and 505 Cricklade Road, both in Pinehurst (separate applications); 7 Wills Avenue, Marshgate; 17 Pathfinder Way, Oakhurst; 5 Hopton Close, Freshbrook; 40 Phillips Road, Stratton St Margaret; 6 Whittington Road, Westlea; 20 Bradwell Moor, Liden; 164 A Whitworth Road, Moredon; and Orion, Frankland Road, Blagrove.
Such applications have been approved for: 60 Severn Avenue, Haydon Wick; 117 Bruce Street Rodbourne; 35 Moormead Road, Wroughton; 47 Ridge Nether Moor, Liden, 23 Fairlawn Liden and 13A Turnpike Road, Blunsdon