Developers who want to knock down a former hotel destroyed by fire and build 70 houses on the land have asked to be allowed to ignore or change three planning conditions.

Developers Bellway Homes Ltd have already got outline planning permission for the scheme – but that permission came with a number of conditions - three of which were about the noise of the development works.

One condition was that an assessment of possible noise sources from work on the development should be undertaken and a mitigation plan put in for “where the rating level of any noise source exceeds 5db below the background level” in order to protect the “residential amenity” of future occupants of the development.

Two other conditions require the soundproofing of the houses built to meet the current British standards and that none of the houses should be occupied until it is demonstrated that the first condition, about the noise mitigation has been adhered to.

But a report put together for Bellway Homes says the first condition is impossible.

It said: “An assessment of noise from surrounding industrial noise sources has been undertaken and have been found to be considerably lower than the measured ambient noise levels under westerly or southerly conditions. Compliance with the condition has been found not to be demonstrably possible.”

The hotel, bases around a Victorian Vicarage closed in July 2016 before it was destroyed by a fire a year later.

The scheme includes a mixture of two-storey terraced houses and four-bedroom detached homes, individual parking or garages, and footpaths and green public space.

The Old Vicarage which sits on the South-West corner of the site on Vicarage Lane will be turned into a large family home by the developers.

Comments on the application should be made to Swindon Borough Council's via its website planning department by Thursday October 18.