Tweaks to a takeaway Greggs at a central Swindon petrol station and good news for riders in a small village are among the planning applications made to Swindon Borough Council this week.

KINGSDOWN: Motor Fuel Ltd, which runs the BP filling station on Cricklade Road was given permission to extend the building to host a Greggs bakery and takeaway earlier this year.

Now the company has applied to be able to tweak its design for the building, with the change primarily being a move to build a flat roof on it instead of a pitched one.

TOWN CENTRE:  A plan by property development company Frost to convert part of the shop building at 11 Market Street to flats has been approved. The front of the building giving onto the street will continue as a shop, but rooms at the back on the ground floor will become one one-bedroom flat and the entire first floor will be converted to another single-bed apartment.

TOWN CENTRE:  Coffee chain Costa wants to keep using the pedestrianised highway outside its shop in 32 The Parade in the town centre as a seating area. The permission the shop was granted in 2021 will expire at the end of the month. The company has simply applied for the same permission.

OLD TOWN: M Rajah has applied for permission to use the basement of 58 Western Street as a two-bedroomed self-contained apartment.

DRAYCOT FOLIAT: Riders in the tiny village south of Chiseldon training with their horses could be protected from the rain now Jane Evens has been given permission to cover the existing horse arena in the corner of the cricket field on Nive Road.

Ms Evans is permitted to use weatherboard and cement fibre roof tiles for the building to be put up to protect the arena, and it must not be used for commercial equestrian purposes.

GORSE HILL: A large hair and beauty salon above a shop could be turned into two separate flats. Developer Ranjit Singh wants to use the space occupied until recently by Charly Hair and Beauty above the Salvation Army Shop at 76 Cricklade Road for the flats.

One, overlooking the main road would have three bedrooms, and the other just one. Mr Singh’s application says the salon has been empty for some months and that there has been no attempt to use it for its permitted use since then.

His application adds: ”This location is ideally suited to residential use as it surrounded by other mixed residential houses and commercial shops. It is considered that the proposal, to provide good sized residential dwellings, represents a far better and more appropriate use of this space.”

BROAD GREEN: Planners at the borough council have agreed to the continued residential use of the two-bed flat on the first and second floor of 124 Manchester Road. And some minor internal alterations, swapping the first-floor bedroom with the living room to make the bedroom bigger. The ground floor will continue to be used as a restaurant and take-away.

EXTENSIONS: Applications have been submitted to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings, or to convert lofts and garages into habitable rooms at:  49 Avebury Road, Penhill; 40 Grange Drive, Stratton St Margaret; Overwood, 3 Mill Lane, Stanton Fitzwarren; 19 Stadium View, St Andrews; 24 Bryanston Way, Nythe; 24 Tismeads Crescent, Old Town; 261 Whitworth Road, Moredon;4 Conrad Close, Liden; 14 Edington Close, Toothill; 3 Tiverton Road, Gorse Hill; 6 Pound Road, Highworth;  1 Tall Conifers, Wroughton.

Plans for an extension have been approved for 47 William Morris Way, Tadpole Garden Village; 15 Kestrel Drive, Covingham; 16 Leven, Freshbrook; 8 Gibbs Close, Covingham; The Mallards, Rotten Row, Wanborough; Eastbrook Cottage, Cues Lane, Bishopstone; 9 Cricklade Road Highworth.