The latest planning applications sent to Swindon Borough Council.

Town centre: The owners and operators of a food kiosk just off Regent Street have asked for permission to keep the chairs and tables outside. The original permission granted in 2017 was for five years and expired at the end of August. Pasquale and Samantha Bretti, who run Swindon’s No 1 Street Café in Church Walk South told planners in their application: “Under the approval the continued use of the area should have been discontinued on or before the expiration of five years after the permission.

“However, this date was not noticed by the applicant and the onset and progress of the Covid pandemic meant that it slipped like many other things. Following notice of this expiration on 31st August by Swindon Borough Council the applicant has made immediate steps to submit the required planning application to continue the use.”

 

Liden:  The Chalet School in Liden Drive, a school for children with difficulties caused by autism has been given retrospective permission to keep the prefabricated classroom on its site. The school’s application for retrospective permission for the classroom and an associated outdoor playing space has been granted. The school told Swindon Borough Council it allowed 72 pupils to attend rather than just 57.

Great Western Hospital:  The Emergency Department at GWH in the south of the borough could be given greater capacity. Bosses at the hospital have applied for permission to add a single-storey extension to the A&E department. Some reconfiguration of Coatside Way and the moving of ambulance parking will be p[part of the plan if approved.

 

Rodbourne Cheney :  A collapsed wall will be replaced if the application by the owners of 302 Cheney Manor Road is approved. The wall has fallen down and been cleared – but the Cotswold stone it was made of has s been kept. The application says the northern side of the wall, facing Allison Court will be built in reconstituted stone to match Allison Court. The other side of the wall, which is within the Rodbourne Cheney conservation area will be rebuilt in the Costwold stone- but it will need extra stone to be used, and the new stone will not have been weathered to match.

Extensions: Applications have been lodged to build extensions or outbuildings to houses or to convert garages and lofts into habitable rooms at: 73 Britten Road, Redhouse; 17 Darcey Close, Grange Park; 43 Headlands Grove, Stratton St Margaret; 12 Monmouth Close, lawn; 22 Batsford Crescent, Blunsdon St Andrew; 56 Tracey Close, Abbey meads; 9 Falconscroft, Covingham; Little Hinton Farm, Little Hinton lane, Hinton Parva; 3 Dairy Road, Chiseldon and 19 Marney Road, Grange Park.

 

Such applications have been approved for: 7 Ceres Road, Blunsdon; 25 Dunbar Road, Wroughton; 76 Priors Hill, Wroughton; 10 Chicory Close, Pembroke Park; 21 Fitzgerold Avenue, Highworth and 68 Mulberry Grove, Rodbourne Cheney

 

 

Two applications for extensions have been refused.

 

At 13 Rodbourne Road, the towner, Mr Pratheepan’s plan for an extension to a single-storey flat-roofed building at the side, which would see it given a second storey and gabled roof, was turned down. The decision by planners at the borough council said: “The proposed first-floor side extension, due to its siting and scale, represents inappropriate development which does not harmonise with the host dwelling or existing character and context.

“The proposal introduces an alien form which would have a negative effect upon the host dwelling as well as the character and appearance of the area due to its contrived nature.

 

 

 

In Rodbourne Cheney, S Drew, who owns 44 Moredon Road wanted to build single-storey extensions to the front and rear of the existing garage at the property to create a garage and garden room.

But Euclid Street planners thought the plan was too big and turned it down, saying: “The proposed garden room/garage due to the bulk and scale, represents a dominant and overbearing development to both the host dwelling and surrounding area.”