An old cinema could get a revamp, a flats plan for the town centre is revived, but a garden using parking spaces is refused, at least for now.

RODBOURNE: A former cinema which has had a variety of commercial uses could be getting a make-over.

Errol Orbasli who runs Orbasli Property Holdings Ltd bought the Palladium in Jennings Street last year. Since closing as a cinema in 1962 it has had a number of uses including a carpet  store and printers.

Mr Orbasli wants to reconfigure the inside into a series of small offices and workshops, using shared kitchen and toilet and lobby facilities, as well as re-rendering the slightly shabby exterior to make it more attractive.

TOWN CENTRE: A change in the law has revived a plan to convert the two storeys above the HMV shop at 16-17 Regent Street into eight flats.

Moretons Investments withdrew an application for permission for the change of use because it could not demonstrate the buildings had been vacant for three months.

The law was changed earlier this year dropping that requirement, so the company has brought back its application.

It has another application on the site to demolish the exisiting third floor, build two extra floors and use those for four apartments each.

BROOME MANOR: A cattery housed at Nightingale Farm Cottage in Broome Manor Lane has been given permission to expand. Sally Luckes who runs Broome Manor Cattery has been given the go-ahead to put up three more cat pods - three metre-wide, 2.4 metre-high sheds, glazed to the front and side- on the site.

Each pod is capable of housing at least three cats each.

GORSE HILL: Cubex Land Ltd, the owner of Cirencester Trade park on Gipsy Lane has been given the permission to put up a five metre-high totem advertising board just off the street, advertising the businesses using the park, currently Howden, Screwfix, Topps Tiles and Travis Perkins.

BLUNSDON:  The loss of parking spaces to create a garden cannot be given a certificate of lawfulness, but it might not prevent full planning permission being given for the scheme. Trevor Kenyon applied to be allowed to turn the two parking spaces behind the house at 6 Holloway Close into a walled garden.

But because the planning permission for the houses when they were built said they must come with sufficient parking matching the council's parking standards, a simple certificate of lawfulness cannot overturn that. It would not necessarily prevent an application for full planning permission  being approved.

Putting up fences and walls around buildings used by children and young people is a minor theme.

REDHOUSE: Bridlewood Primary School in Chartwell Road has applied to be able to put up a 2.4 metre-high fence along its southern boundary, backing on to the back gardens of houses in Ebor Close.

The school says it wants the fence to protect the shrubbery and trees that forms the boundary at the moment.

HIGHWORTH:  Warneford School has applied to put up a 2.4 metre-high fence around its boundary.

HIGHWORTH: The Scout Hut at Eastrop has applied for permission to repair, and recap the wall surrounding its site that backs on to allotment gardens.

EXTENSIONS: Applications have been submitted for permission to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings or to convert garages and lofts into habitable rooms at: 75 Wheeler Avenue, Upper Stratton: 20 Matley Moor, Liden; 9 Acacia Grove, Pinehurst; 16 Longfellow Close, St Andrews Ridge; 40 Draycott Road, Chiseldon; 139 Okus Road, South Leaze; The4 Nursery House, Marlborough Road, Chiseldon; 20 Langstone Way, Westlea; 18 Willington Road, Redhouse.

Such applications have been approved for 30 Sunningdale Road, Pinehurst; White Elms, Newtown Lane, Bishopstone; Waylands, Cues Lane, Bishopstone and 12 Beranburh Field, Wroughton.