A CONVENIENCE store that was damaged by fire can be rebuilt and used again as a shop.

That's despite the concerns of neighbours about traffic, especially large delivery lorries blocking the street.

Shopkeeper S Chowdhury was given permission by Swindon Borough Council to build a two and a half storey building at 3-5 Lagos Street in the town centre.

The ground floor will be used a anew grocery store and the upstairs for offices.

Neighbours had objected to the plan on the grounds that a loading bay planned outside the unit would be used by delivery trucks up to 32-feet long in a tight network of streets in a densely inhabited part of town.

Neighbour Saeed Ali said that Corporation Street had been blocked by deliveries before and was also concerned at a lack of proper provision for bins and the disposal of waste.

Speaking on behalf of the applicant, Paul Oakley said there was a dedicated area for waste storage, and there was also car and cycle parking in the plan outside the shop, but most people would walk to it from the neighbouring streets.

The scheme was passed by all councillors except for Coun Jane Milner-Barry who objected to the design of the building as out of keeping with the area.