Swindon planning: Nursery becomes house and wall restoration

Highworth: A former children’s nursery school can be turned back into a single family home.

Westgate Nursery School at 82 Cricklade Road closed in March, and now Elizabeth Thomas  has been given the go ahead to turn the building into a home.

The plans show the ground floor will have a large open-plan living room, with conservatory attached, with access to a kitchen. There would also be a large bedroom with kitchenette and what is described specifically as a “carer’s bedroom and living room”.

Dorcan: Eastcott Vets has  been given permission to build a larger entrance porch at its large clinic at the Edison Business Park in Hindle Way of Dorcan Way.

Town Centre: An ambitious plan to turn the derelict tented market site in the town centre into flats has been allowed to expire. CJV properties made proposals to demolish the market and build a block up to 10 storeys high with 68 flats and shops and cafes and restaurants there. No progress has been made on the application for some years and it is now deemed ‘finally disposed of’.

Broadgreen Mr Mehmet Isitmen plan to demolish the garage at 45 Manchester Road, then extend the rear of the property and then convert the whole thing into four flats has been refused permission.

Planning officers said: “The standard of accommodation proposed falls significantly short of the Nationally Described Space Standards so the development would fail to provide a satisfactory standard of accommodation.”

Tadpole Garden Village:  A proposal by Mustafa Isithan to site and operate a hot food takeaway van from the car park of Sansbury’s supermarket I the village has been refused.

There were six letters from residents about the proposed siting at the junction of William Morris Way and Maizey Road.

The reason for refusal said: “The application fails to demonstrate that the use of the land for siting a hot food van would complement the character and appearance of the area and would have an acceptable impact on the neighbouring businesses and local residents’ amenity in terms of the control of noise, odours, and litter and the provision of hygiene and waste facilities.”

Central:   Swindon Borough Council’s plan to repair and renovate the listed wall at Clarence House, the old Victorian school, in the Euclid Street campus has been approved.

Planners required the council to  detail how the wall would be taken down and put back up again.

The council said the original bricks would be removed by workers by hand, using hammer and bolster, and stacked for re-use.

The bricks will be cleaned up of left over mortar. The council said: “Once clean the wall is to be rebuilt toothed into the existing section to the east and a straight jointed to the engineering brick section to the West. The bond of the wall is to match the existing, based on photographs taken before the wall was taken down”

Extensions: Applications have been lodged to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings or to convert garages and lofts into habitable rooms at 25 Goffard Avenue, Old Town; 8 Radcot Close, Shaw; The Woodpeckers, Sevenhampton Lane, Sevenhampton; 34 Popplechurch Drive, Covingham; 24 Stadium View, St Andrew; 5 Merlin Way, Covingham; 29 The Brow, Haydon Wick; 22 Gillings Way, Covingham; 77 Newcastle Street, Central; 9 Severn Avenue, Haydon Wick; 8 Honiton Road, Park North; 10 Treforest Close, Oakhurst; 48 Capesthorne Drive, Haydon Wick;

Such applications have been approved for 4 Merrivale Close, Old Walcot; 38 Upham Road, Old Walcot; 36 Thames Avenue, Haydon Wick; 41 Marlborough Road.

A proposal by S Burgat to add a two-storey rear extension and a porch to 11 Walton Close, in Park South has been refused. Planning officers said: “The proposed parking area would result in a cramped and contrived layout at the property and would impact on the privacy and security of the rear garden area and the rear of the property.

“As such the development fails to demonstrate a high quality of design.”