Here's our round-up of the planning applications being considered by Swindon Borough Council this week.

OLD TOWN: A proposal to put a large digital display on the gable end of a fish bar in Old Town has been refused because it would detract from the historic conservation area.

The owners of the Mr Cod Fish Bar at 130 Victoria Road applied for permission for a very large digital display to replace two existing hoardings.

While the borough council’s highways department did not object as long as no adverts ever featured an arrow - possibly confusing drivers - South Swindon Parish Council objected: “The digital sign could cause driver distraction travelling down from Victoria Road, turning into and out of Union Row and Prospect Place.

The dimensions of the sign are too large for the building. The building is technically not in a formal "conservation area” but is outside two - Old Town and Prospect Place - by only a couple of metres.”

The borough council has refused permission saying the display is too big and prominent and would damage the look of the Old Town Conservation Area.

BROAD GREEN: Another huge digital display could go on the aspect of Abby’s Food and Wine store in Manchester Road facing the crossroads with Corporation Street. Owner Selim Rahman wants to put the board on the chamfered angle of the building which wraps around the corner – and if approved, it will take up the whole of the second-storey frontage.

BLUNSDON: A dog daycare business can continue to use an outbuilding behind 39 Ermin Street. Ryan Goodall has run Pooch’n’Pals from the house for some years.

He told planners: “The dogs are taken to a family- owned field in the morning and return approximately around lunchtime where the dogs retire to the outbuilding to rest/sleep.

“In inclement conditions, the outbuilding is used more extensively to keep the dogs out of the bad weather.”

Owing to a change in licensing conditions for animal care businesses, the outbuilding has to be approved for business use. Despite an objection by Blunsdon Parish Council, the application was approved by the borough council.

TOWN CENTRE: A plan to convert two floors of offices to flats above a shop in Commercial Road has been withdrawn.  Harry Ferdinando who runs the GS Ferdinando Estate Trust had lodged a proposal to convert the offices above the Gurkha Mini Market at 18020 Commercial Road into six flats, three per floor.

That proposal has been withdrawn despite no objections having yet been lodged.

EXTENSIONS: Applications to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings, or to convert garages and lofts into habitable rooms have been submitted for 41 Birch Street, Kingshill; 16 Ancona Close, Ramleaze; 30 Wentworth Park, Freshbrook; 24 Juno Way, Rushey Platt; 42 Birch Street, Kingshill; 104 May Close, Gorse Gill; 10 Taunton Close, Haydon Wick; 6 Quarry Road, Old Town and 49 Bramble Road, Elgin.

Such applications have been approved for 38 Liskeard Way, Freshbrook; 24 Petersfield Road, Park South; 16 Buie Close, Sparcells; 26 Mannington Park, Rodbourne; 2 Yew Tree Garden, South Marston; 47 Horseshoe Crescent, Peatmoor; 15 Gaynor Close, Abbeymeads; 34 Pewsham Road, Penhill; 22 Hythe Road, old Town and 49 New Dawn Place, Greenbridge.

A plan to put an extension at the back of 167 Redcliffe Street in Rodbourne has been refused a certificate of lawfulness. But could still be approved. Planners have told applicant Lewis Dawson that his proposal for a first-floor extension, which would allow expansion of the end-of-terrace Victorian house a larger kitchen needs planning permission and cannot be given a certificate of lawfulness.