Old Town: Fresh from having one proposal to turn a family home into a house of multiple occupation for eight people turned down, a developer has lodged plans for another conversion.

Phillip Brett, whose plan for a house in Lansdown Road was refused by Swindon Borough Council’s planning committee in late May, has now put in a bid to change the use of 34 Dover Street to an eight-person home.

That plan includes getting retrospective planning permission for an existing two-storey rear extension as well as a new permission for a further single-storey extension

In March, a similar plan was refused by planning officer.

North Star: An increased need for the disposal of medical waste could see two warehouse buildings being used on the Hawksworth Industrial Estate just north of the railway station.

Caerphilly-based PHS Group wants to move one of the buildings it already uses, and put up another lightweight shed for the disposal of such waste, which would arrive at the site in sealed containers on a lorry.

The company’s application said: “The increase in volume of personal hygiene waste collected by PHS in and around the south-west and Midlands areas has meant that the existing PHS transfer facilities at West Bromwich and Bristol have reached capacity and are not able to take any additional waste for onward transfer.”

Rodbourne: Comments on plans to put up a 20m 5G mast in North Star Avenue should be send to the borough council’s planning department by Wednesday June 24.

The plans by mobile service provider Hutchison has already been opposed by councillors for nearby wards, Jim Grant from Rodbourne Cheney and Jim Robbins from Mannington and Western.

They say the pole is too close to nearby houses in Ferndale Road and Osbourne Street, and local primary and nursery schools.

Stratton St Margaret: A plan to convert a garage behind a house has been turned down. Andy Stone had applied to convert the garage at 156 Ermin Street into a one-bed home, still with an integrated double garage.

But planners said creating an independent detached house with no garden space of its own was against the council’s planning policy.

Access would remove a parking space used by the existing property, and the new home would need a parking space.

Town centre: Financial giant Zurich has proposed minor changes to its new office building, which is set to become the flagship of the Kimmerfields regeneration project.

The roof level will be lowered as the building has been made slightly smaller, and relocation of glazing on the façade will have a “better visual grouping”.

The company wants to add more planting to its landscaping around the building to integrate it with the borough council’s Fleming Way 'bus boulevard' scheme.

Work was due to start on the initial stages of construction work on the tower block earlier this year but has been delayed by the coronavirus lockdown.

Covingham: A plan to build a front extension at the front of 17 Dovetrees was approved by members of the council’s planning committee despite a recommendation from officers to refuse it.

Lydia Baines will now be able to construct the room above the front porch of the house after the committee decided against the officers advice.