Panattoni, the huge industrial property developer, is really getting on with its plans to revamp the old Honda site on the eastern edge of Swindon.

It already has teams tearing down the previous buildings on the old South Marston airfield site and it is also ploughing through the paperwork associated with the planning permission granted for its plans.

The company is spending an estimated £900 million to build 11 warehouse or industrial units on the 360-acre site now renamed Panattoni Park.

In the last few weeks, it has asked planners to sign off on the work of six on the scores of conditions which were attached to the permission.

One of those conditions is a requirement to show details of the trees that will be kept, or planted on the site, with an additional requirement that at least a fifth be long-lived large trees such as English oak, hornbeam, London plane, lime, tulip tree or horse chestnut.

Panattoni’s submission for this condition says there will be 1104 trees on site, with 351 of them from the required large long-lived species.

Most of these will be 182 tulip trees with 118 London plane trees, and 25 hornbeam.

The plan shows there will be no English oaks, but adds: “This species is only available in small stock sizes grown in the UK due to a ban on imports in an attempt to slow the spread of oak processionary moth.

“Therefore, oaks are included as transplants in the woodland core mix, but not as standard trees.”

The other conditions the developer is asking to be discharged are more technical, with one on the construction details of culverts, another an assessment of the risk of driving pilings into the ground – which found that risk was very low – and one on the diversion of water courses on site, with another two relating to the decommissioning of investigative bore holes.

No decision has yet been taken on these applications.

Another five conditions of consent including details of fences to be put up to protect trees and details of bat roosts and habitats on the site, which said the buildings onsite would have a negligible change of bats roosting have already been discharged.

Panattoni’s business model is to construct its buildings as ‘speculative developments’ – it builds warehouses or factories in what it sees as suitable sites and then seeks to find tenants.

Panattoni Park is already being marketed to potential users.