Cats and Dogs will have new facilities, wetland wildlife could benefit from proposed changes in a country park and an HMO company gets retrospective permission for a shared house, again.

Mouldon Country Park: Wiltshire Wildlife Trust has applied for approval of a plan to drop the river bank of the River Ray in parts as it flows through Mouldon Country Park.

The idea is to create “new habitats for a range of aquatic plants and animals. These new habitats will take the form of a series of lowered floodplain areas, specifically designed to become inundated during high water levels; and a marginal backwater area, designed to hold water year-round and act as a sheltering area for juvenile fish.

Central: A company which runs HMOs which recently was given retrospective permission for the shared house it operates has just been given another retrospective permission.

3 Park Lane near GWR Park is already being used as a seven-person, seven-bedroom house of multiple occupancy. But the change of use to allow it to be so has only just been granted to SCH UK, a company based in Royal Wootton Bassett.

The company has recently been given retrospective permission to keep the seven-bed HMo it operates in Tryon Close as such, 10 years after it was converted from a dentist surgery into a shared house.

Banners: A proposal made last year by Mid-Counties Co-operative to put advertising banners on the roundabout at Lady Lane, Salzgitter Drive and Diamond Crescent has lapsed for lack of further action by the applicant.

But Swindon Borough Council has been permitted banners on lamp posts in Station Road and Sheppard Street as part of its work to regenerate the area.

Hannington: Part of the property at Wyndward, Nell Hill in the village to the north of Swindon can be converted into a cattery. Spencer Davies’ plan to convert some of the house, and construct a cat enclosure in the grounds, with 7 pens holding up to 14 cats at a time has been approved.

Grange Park: Rosie Bedford can use the garage at 12 King Henry Drive as a commercial dog groomers. Ms Bedford said she would see no more than four clients a day and houses would be 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Fridays and Saturday mornings.

Extensions: Applications have been submitted to be able to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings or to convert lofts and garages to habitable rooms at 5 Moorhen Close, Covingham; 81 Priors Hill, Wroughton; 15 Collard Close, East Wichel; 30 Sunningdale Road, Pinehurst; 5 Bradely Road, Upper Stratton and 15 Kestrel Drive, Covingham.

Such proposals have been approved for: 159 Welcombe Avenue, Walcot; 13 Cambrai Road, Chiseldon; 70 Sandringham Road, Lawn; 17 Ashen Copse Road, Wroughton; 26 Haydon View Road, Pinehurst; 31 Berricot Lane, Badbury; 40 Stratton Road, Stratton St Margaret; 3 Ash Tree Close, Kingsdown; 3 Brendon Walk, Park North;  51 Merton Avenue, Upper Stratton; 6 Willows Avenue, Pinehurst; 158 Pinehurst Road, Pinehurst; 19 Ashbury Avenue, Nythe; 8 Mildmay Close, Grange Park; 33 Darius Way, Abbey Meads; 19 Falconscroft, Covingham; 45 High Street, Wroughton and 31 Mayfly Road, Oakhurst.

Cottage: A plan to build a glazed extension to the Grade II-listed house at Badbury Wick Cottage, 45 Day House Lane, Badbury Wick has been refused permission.

Jack Nethercott had wanted to put a extension on to the side of the thatched cottage which dates back to the 19th Century, with a single-storey extension which would feature a lot of glass.

Planners at Swindon Borough Council said: “Although the principle of a single storey, proportionate side extension is acceptable, the proposed extent and appearance of glazing and fenestration is not considered to be acceptable as it would result in a harmful, incongruous impact on the designated heritage asset.”