In this week's planning roundup for Swindon, second applications after an initial refusal are a minor theme and former cinema gets a new lease of life

Rodbourne: A former cinema which has had a variety of commercial uses can now be used as offices and workshops for general commercial use.

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 several uses including a carpet store and printers.

Mr Orbasli has been given the green light 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.

Wroughton: William Evans, who was turned down when he put forward a plan to self-build a house next to 25 Wharf Road has returned with a changed proposal.

His plan for the house on the green space next to the semi-detached number 25 has been turned down because lanners thought it would be ‘incongruous and dominant’  and the loss of the pen space, which appears quite wooded, to lead to a ‘cramped and overdeveloped’ appearance.

Mr Evans has now submitted a new plan for the three-bed detached home, which will continue the line of numbers 25 and 27.

Wroughton Parish Council said it had no objections as long as the previous issues identified with the last application had been rectified.

Coate: Motorists on the Marlborough Road in south Swindon will not miss a refuelling stop if Motor Fuel Groups’ planning application is approved. The company, which runs the Shell garage on the road has applied to put up a five-metre tall totem sign just on the boundary past the exit from the site to the main road.

Town Centre: Having had his plan to turn the upstairs of the restaurant and takeaway at 31 Morley Street into a flat turned down because it would have been too small, C Shah thought again.

He put in a new application and this time asked for consent for an extended first floor to allow for the one-bed flat.

This new plan has been approved.

Cheney Manor: The replacement of the two-bed bungalow at 135 Cheney Manor Road, with a slightly larger one-bedroom bungalow, proposed by Mr Garret, has been approved. The plan is an aggregate of two earlier plans for a new roof and a new bungalow of the same size and design already approved.

The new bungalow will be larger in length and the one large bedroom will have an en-suite bathroom and the main bathroom will be larger than previously.

Extensions: Applications have been submitted to build extensions to houses, or outbuildings, or to convert lofts and garages to habitable rooms at: 229 Ferndale Road, Gorse Hill; 5 Chancellor Close, Grange Park; 9 Highwood Close, Woodhall Park, 1 Byron Court, South Marson, 37 Cornwall Avenue, Rodbourne Cheney’ 1 The Quarries, Old Town;  24 Meadowsweet Close. Haydon Wick; 122 Drakes Way, Walcott and the Rookery, 4 Church Lane, Stanton Fitzwarren.

Such applications have been approved for 164 Marlborough Road, Coate; 1 Danestone Close, Middleleaze and 21a Marlborough Road, Wroughton.

The plan put forward by John Hayden to put up a two-storey extension at the rear of 34 Mallard Close in Covingham was refused permission.

Council planning officers said: “The proposed two-storey rear extension would result in loss of light and overshadowing to the neighbouring habitable room window and would create a visual dominance to an unacceptable degree.

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