One of the few meetings of Swindon Borough Council to be held in the next two months will go ahead on Wednesday.

The ruling Conservative cabinet will be asked to make decisions on a compulsory purchase order to take back public ownership of the Mechanics' Institute and on raising more than £5m for a long-term restoration of the Health Hydro baths in Milton Road.

Another item will be a decision on whether to spend more than £50m on two affordable housing schemes, 64 homes in Windmill Hill in west Swindon and nearly 150 units on cleared land on Queen's Drive.

The cabinet will meet at 6pm

Those decisions will then be scrutinised by the scrutiny committee which will meet on Monday March 30, also at 6pm.

The meetings are essential under the council's constitution, for the running of the authority.

Any decisions which would have needed the approval of full council to go ahead will see a special committee called instead.