A clean car has been added to the menu at a famous Chinese restaurant in planning this week.

Peatmoor: Diners at what was once said to be the largest Chinese restaurant in Europe can now emerge after a meal to a sparkling car.

Hongxin Oriental Buffet on Pepperbox Hill, once the Pagoda Palace, has been given permission to re-configure three of the parking spaces in its car park into a car wash.

As part of the plan, two canopies will be put up, one for washing the cars and one for drying them.

Given the scheme would only remove three parking spaces from use, and planners felt the car wash would mostly be used by people meeting at the restaurant, the scheme has been approved.

Highworth: A Grade II-listed house can be converted into a six-bed HMO.

Developer Mr Islam has asked for permission to install rooflights and replace windows and re-roof the building at 5b Sheep Street as part of its conversion to a six-bedroom house of multiple occupancy.

There were no objections from the parish council or neighbours and planners, in granting permission, said: “The proposed alterations would preserve the special interest of No 5B Sheep Street and would not result in harm to the significance of the listed building. The character and appearance of the conservation area would be preserved.”

Upper Stratton: Stratton St Margaret Parish Council has been given more time to prepare and submit an ecological and landscape plan for its proposal to keep the Pond in Merton Fields Millennium Green in Merton Avenue.

The deadline for submitting the plan has been extended from the end of September 2023 to February 20, 2024.

Extensions: Applications have been lodged for permission to build extensions to homes, or to put up outbuildings or to convert lofts and garages and sheds to habitable rooms at: 17 Ravenscroft Covingham; 7 Laughton Way, Abbey Meads; 30 Ceres Road, Blunsdon St Andrew41 Wheeler Avenue, Stratton St Margaret and Cradlebridge House, the Pitchens, Wroughton.

Applications have been approved for 10 Limes Avenue, Pinehurst; 13 Newhall Street, Central; 156 Shrivenham Road; 10 Radley Close, Nythe; 11 Chase Wood, Peatmoor; 12 Larchmore Close, Mor5edon; 54 Norman Road, Gorse Hill (a retrospective application); 2 Verulam Close, Stratton St Margaret; 94 Chatsworth Road, Abbey Meads; 24 Eastville Road, Haydon Wick; 79 Biddestone Avenue, Coate; 150 Cheney Manor Road, Cheney Manor; 3 Campden Road, Old Walcot; 36 Barrington Close, Liden; 46 Langton park, Wroughton; 38 Belle Vue Road, Old Town; 89 Greene Street, Tadpole Garden Village; 348 Cricklade Road; 101 Swindon Road, Wroughton; 27 St Philips Road, Stratton St Margaret; 17 Somerville Road, Walcot; 33 Ponting Street, Broadgreen; 7 Severn Avenue Haydon Wick; 22 Fairlawn Liden (a retrospective application); 72 Lyndhurst Crescent Park North; 122 Grange Drive, Stratton St Margaret, 253 Marlborough Road, 16 Haydon View Road, Pinehurst and 18 Dover Street in Old Town.

A certificate of lawfulness sought for the conversion of a garage into habitable space at 18 Willington Road in Redhouse has been refused.

The proposal was to remove the garage door from the ground floor integrated garage and add another ordinary door and a window to the front of the house and use the room as part of its living space.

But planners said one of the conditions when permission was granted to build the houses in 2002 was that they had to have garages, to allow off-street parking.

Converting the garage breaks that condition, and a certificate of lawfulness could not be offered. This does not necessarily preclude the owner applying for, and getting full planning consent.