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Wanborough: Alpacas can graze in peace undisturbed.
Plans put forward by Firecracker Developments for five detached luxury houses on land at Honeyfield Farm in The Marsh in Wanborough, currently used for the raising of alpacas have been turned down.
Council planners have said the ‘executive dwellings’, each in its own large plot with garages are not suitable and the development “encroaches into the non-coalescence area of countryside which seeks to protect the character and identity of Wanborough. The proposed development would harm the council’s strategy for housing growth, and would set a precedent for the release of further inappropriate unallocated greenfield sites”.
Haydon Wick: Skateboarders will be pleased that plans for an improved skatepark have been given the go-ahead.
At the moment the facilities in Haydon Leigh, off Westfield Way, are basic with some ramps and banks and rails.
Planners have approved Haydon Wick Parish Council’s proposals for an £80,000 upgrade featuring an integrated bowl with rails and tables.
Old Town: Worshippers will sing hymns of praise where previously cyclists bought high-end bikes. JD Church which has long occupied the upper floors above cycle shop The Bike Rooms in Marlborough Road has been given permission to use the ground floor as a place of worship.
The cycle shop vacated the store in September.
Tadpole Garden Village: A plot set aside for 14 custom-built houses has been approved by Swindon Borough Council. Developer Crest Nicholson has set guidelines as to how the houses should be constructed and the broad outline of design, but the specifics will be up to buyers.
Wroughton: The George VI post box removed from a listed wall in Wroughton will be put back. Royal Mail has restored the box, restoring the front and adding a new carcass to the back after the original rusted away. A more modern box has been put in the hole in the listed wall in The Pitchens, but now permission has been granted the original one will be put back.
Rodbourne: Two flats and parking spaces with planning consent will replace three flats without.
G Keene has been given the go-ahead to reconfigure 187 Ferndale Road. At the moment there are three flats on the corner of Newmarket Street. Mr Keene’s application says the previous conversion of the terraced house into the three flats did not have planning permission.
Now he plans to remove much of the rear extension and use the cleared space for two car parking spaces, where there is currently no off-road provision.
South Leaze: Taylor Wimpy has been given the go-ahead to put up advertising flags at its Ambrose Gardens development just off Ambrose Road and Croft Road south of Swindon on the way to East Wichel.
Town Centre: Storage space above a shop in the centre of town will become two flats. Izzet Donmez has been given permission to move ahead with his plans to convert the upper floors of 33 Faringdon Road into two-bedroom flats, one of each of the two floors. The ground floor will continue to operate as a shop.
Chiseldon: Euro Garages, which runs filling stations across Swindon, has withdrawn its application to build two drive-through units on an empty plot immediately south of its garage in Chiseldon.
The company wanted to build the units to house a coffeeshop and fast food outlet, understood to be Starbucks and KFC, which both have deals with the garage company.
