CCTV at a temporary traveller site and new facilities for trainee vets can go ahead in the latest planning schemes being considered by Swindon Borough Council.

Chiseldon: Swindon Borough Council has been given permission by its own planning department to put up towers carrying CCTV cameras at a temporary gypsy and traveller site.

The council will be able to set up three five-metre-high masts each with cameras at the perimeter of the Chiseldon Firs Transit site off Marlborough Road – the site is used as temporary accommodation for travelling people.

The masts will be painted dark green to blend in with the evergreen trees which surround the site.

The council says: “The site, as evidenced by graffiti and litter, has suffered from anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping. CCTV will prevent such activities.”

Old Town: A proposal by Green Bird Development to build an L-shaped block of four two-bed flats in the car park behind 174 Victoria Road has been approved. The flats will be accessed from Cross Street

Broadgreen: Developer Gian Singh Jonal has been given permission to convert the three-bedroom terrace house at 188 County Road into two flats. The ground floor flat will have one bedroom, and the flat on the first floor will have two.

Westlea: Trainee vets could soon be enjoying new facilities in an office building in the Delta Business Park. Improve International, which says it needs to move its facilities from elsewhere in Swindon to the Delta 1200 building on Welton Road, has been given the go-ahead to construct vets’ teaching facilities.

Part of the ground floor will be made into laboratories, x-ray rooms preparation rooms as well as offices.

Rehouse: A plan put forward by Andreia Rodrigue de Gois to use the garage at 13 Elgar Close as a commercial food preparation kitchen has been disposed of after no progress since July b2022.

Blunsdon: Thames Water was given outline planning permission in 2019 to build 15 houses and flats on its site in High Street in the village.

As was needed, it submitted detailed plans for the layout and design of those houses in 2022. But no progress has been made with the application since late summer of that year and the borough council has deemed the application ‘finally disposed of’ – meaning it is no longer active.

Extensions: Applications have been submitted for permission to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings or to convert lofts and garages to habitable rooms at 31 West Highland Road, Ash Brake; 47 William Morris Way, Tadpole Garden Village; 14 Darcey Close, Grange Park; 13 Sunnyside Avenue, Kingshill; 2 Holliday Close, Abbey meads; 4 Hamstead Way, Ash Brake; 1 Ascott Close, Redhouse; and Three Ways, Church Row, Hinton Parva.

Such proposals have been approved at 39 Station Road, Chiseldon; 12 Euclid Street, Swindon; 46 Langton Park, Wroughton; 16 Hollins Moor, Liden; 98 Whitworth Road, Pinehurst; 43 Hythe Road, Old Town; and New Haven, Church Walk, Bishopstone.