Stratton St Margaret: Aldi in Hobley Drive will be able to receive deliveries between 5am and 11pm every day. Planners have granted the German supermarket chain’s request to drop the restriction which only allowed deliveries between 7am and 10pm Monday to Saturday and 9am and 5pm on Sundays and holidays.

Wanborough: St Andrew’s Church can have a new roof. And it will be clad in slate which is slightly unusual for a church – but in keeping with many buildings in Upper Wanborough.

The church suffered thefts of lead from its roof earlier this year and its plan to re-roof the nave in slate and raise its level, as well as putting a new nave parapet gutter up has been approved.

Basset Down: Planners at Swindon Borough Council have refused permission for the principle of three new houses to be built in the tiny village south west of Swindon. Applicants Brian and Christine King had applied for “permission in principle” – a newly introduced mechanism designed to make it easier to build houses – for three homes on land currently used as a stable and horse-training arena backing on to Basset Down Golf Complex.

But planners said the development would be contrary to the council’s development plan and added: “The application site is remote from services and facilities, including bus services and without adequate safe access on foot and by bicycle. The site is therefore unsustainably located.”

Broadgreen:  A plan by Minaz Moledina to convert two shared houses of multiple occupation into eight separate flats has been refused. The proposal would have seen 34 and 34 County Road extended at the rear on the first floor and dormer windows added.

But planners didn’t like the last part of the plan, nor the way the houses were to be divided up. Their refusal notice said: “The proposed dormer windows will result in an  incongruous feature which is uncharacteristic to the surrounding area and therefore result in harm to both the host dwelling and streetscene.

“The failure to meet the nationally-described space standards, the poor layout and lack private amenity space, cumulatively results in harm to the health and wellbeing of future occupants and presents unacceptable levels of amenity.”

Pinehurst: The shipping container used by church youth and community groups in Pinehurst can stay – for two years. Planners have given a temporary permission for the steel box to remain on site, for the storage of sports, games and craft equipment for use by young people. The application by Rev Simon Halls said the two-year permission would give time to find a more permanent place for the materials.

Gorse Hill: Developer S Harvey’s plan to remove the betting shop from the ground floor of 115 Cricklade Road, and convert the shop and the first floor, two-bed flats into four single-bed apartments has been put under starter’s orders by the granting of permission.

Extensions: Applications have been submitted to build extensions to houses, or outbuilding and garages or to  convert garages and lofts into habitable rooms at: 6 Martley Moor, Liden; 22 Wessex Way, Highworth; 27 Chestnut Way, Pinehurst; 319 Ferndale Road, Rodbourne Cheney; 15 Henley Drive, Highworth; 4 Botany, Highworth;  10 The Crescent, Chiseldon.

Such applications have been approved for: 342 Ferndale Road, Rodbourne Cheney; 23 Carisbrooke terrace, Chiseldon; 361 Ferndale Road; 11 Romney Way, Ramleaze; 8 Cambridge Close, Lawn; Dawes place, Kite Hill Wanborough; 31 Amethyst Road, Blunsdon St Andrew and 1 Burns Way, Upper Stratton