Up to 200 homes, a nursery and large spaces for new business and community areas might replace agricultural buildings in Lyneham on land at Chippenham Road.

A planning application has been submitted to demolish the agricultural buildings and replace them with 200 homes along with business and community space on which a nursery will be built.

The plans have been tabled by Bellway Homes.

The mix of housing includes eight five bed houses, 93 four-bed houses, 46 three-bed houses, 41 two-bed houses, 12 one-bedroom apartments.

40 per cent of the homes will be affordable housing, of which 60 per cent would be rented and the other 40 per cent are affordable shared ownership.

The nursery is to be single storey in height and include four playrooms, a staff room, meeting room, office, kitchen, reception, refuse store, store rooms, WCs and an external play area.

It will be placed on the community space and will have 15 parking spaces and is to be in the south-east of the site.

The commercial space will have 17 buildings on it, split into two blocks. The blocks are to be in the north-west of the site.

They will be two-storeys in height and finished in metal steam cladding, corrugated metal cladding and coloured panels.

There will be 551 parking spaces for the homes and 55 spaces for the commercial buildings

The plan says: “The landscape strategy for the development focus is on delivering robust and meaningful green infrastructure as part of the overall site masterplan.”

Within the residential area, the plan says hedges and shrubs will be planted to keep houses private and to soften the street scene.

Trees will also be planted in the gardens of the homes.

The open spaces of greater parkland area on the site will have flowering lawns, meadow grassland, and will be interspersed with trees

The site boundaries have been reinforced with a native woodland mix which both screens off the development and improves the habitat for wildlife the plans say.

A network of meandering footpaths and open lawn spaces have been included for informal recreation and exercise along with benches the plan says.

A playground will also be included.

Oak trees, willows and birches will be planted to bring environmental benefits to the site.

A small community orchard full of different kinds of apples has also been proposed in the south-eastern corner of the site.