More black communications 'obelisks' are set for Swindon town centre - and a significant hurdle to a proposal for a bio-methane truck fulling stop has fallen away.

PARK SOUTH: Changes to the largest house being built on the cleared site of an old snooker club, then a social club have been approved.

Development company Enaa Investments Ltd has planning permission for five houses on the site of the old Green Baize Club in Horsham Road.

The houses will be arranged in a short terrace of four houses at the rear of the site, with a larger house at the front.

Swindon Borough Council planners have approved the plan to remove the integrated garage from the larger house, as two parking spaces are still allocated to the home, and proposals therefore to replace the roller doors with windows for the rooms to be constructed instead of the garage.

TOWN CENTRE: More black ‘obelisks’ which provide Wi-Fi and an emergency telephone, while advertising to the public, will be put up in the pedestrianised areas of the town centre’s main shopping precinct.

BT has been given permission to put up three of its communications hubs. These give an emergency phone provision and also Wi-Fi to the public. The company will also be able to put up the tall rectangular advertising screen alongside the hubs that give rise to the ‘obelisk’ nickname.

The screens and hubs will go up outside numbers 6 and 21 Canal Walk and 53-55 The Parade.

TOOTHILL: The owner of a house in Deerhurst Way has been given the go-ahead to put up another home on the side of his own property.

Gary Rose owns the house at number nine, and he can now build the small two-bed house, suitable for three people, butting up to the existing house on the side between the wall and the road.

COMMONHEAD: CNG fuels the company behind a proposal to build a refuelling station for lorries just off the Commonhead Roundabout on the A419, a few hundred metres from the junction with the M4, which would use biomethane as fuel will be pleased to learn they will not have to go to the time and expense of producing an environmental impact assessment.

The company has asked the borough council’s opinion on whether one was needed, and planners have decided it would be superfluous.

EXTENSIONS: Applications have been submitted for permission to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings, or to convert garages and lofts to habitable rooms at: 31 Sanders Close, Kingsdown; 28 Carisbrooke Terrace, Chiseldon; 17 Purley Avenue, Park South; 19 Ashbury Avenue, Nythe; 9 Avocet Close, Covingham; 21 Knowlands, Highworth; The Mallards, Rotten Row, Wanborough; 11 Irston Way, Freshbrook; 32 Minerva Heights, Blunsdon.

Such proposals have been approved for: 10 Merrivale Rove, Old Walcot; 6 Baileys Way, Wroughton; 11 Symonds, Freshbrook; 18 Cornmarsh Way, Covingham; 1 Colbert Park, Abbey Meads; 1 Fontmell Close, Redhouse; 6 Ashburnham Close, Freshbrook; 46 Southwold Close, Oakhurst; 327 Cheney Manor Road, Cheney Manor; 27 Lampeter Road, Oakhurst; Autumn View, Kite Hill, Wanborough.