Greenbridge: BMW-Mini can knock down an old building on its site as part of the development of a new building known as the logistics hall.

Building 93.0 is a small now disused workshop to the rear of the site on Bridge End Road which will be demolished as part of the building of the new hall which was given planning permission in 2018.

Kingsdown: A new communications tower will be put up in place of an existing one on Kingsdown Road.

Wireless Infrastructure Group which provides technical services to mobile communications providers has been given permission for the 27.5 metre tower.

The firm says it will improve 4g reception and allow 5g coverage, particularly for the company EE which provides mobile communications to the emergency services.

Cheney Manor: Swindon’s waste processing plant at Waterside Park, which uses power to dry household waste into fuel used in industry will be able to run off solar power even on cloudy days and in dark winter mornings or evenings.

Public Power Solutions, Swindon Borough Council’s wholly-owned waste management company has been given permission to install two huge batteries on land off Brindley Close near its processing plant in Cheney Manor industrial estate.

The two 14 metre-long by 2.5m wide and 2.6m high batteries will store energy generated by the solar farm at Barnfield which is fed to the waste plant, for use when the need for power is higher than what can be directly supplied.

Old Town: A former party supplies and fancy dress shop at the bottom of the Victoria Road hill could be converted into a tattoo parlour.

Tattoo artist Nick Ferris has applied for permission to change the use of the building.

He wants to use both the ground floor and first floor, currently used as a store room, for tattooing.

Bishopstone: Fears over fire risk has led to a change of plans to build a thatched house on the site of an old, demolished cottage that once revelled in the name of That Hovel.

Harry Long had already been given permission in 2017 to build a new house on the site.

His new proposal for a two-storey house with a slate roof has been approved, after he said it would be impossible to get building regulations approval for a thatched one, citing the Grenfell disaster.

The new plan, which sees a modern house with a largely open plan ground floor and four bedrooms on the first floor didn’t thrill parish councillors who said they were “disappointed that the existing planning permission for a new thatched property, effectively and sympathetically replacing That Hovel, appears to have been abandoned in favour of a less traditional design.”

The proposal was granted on the grounds that the house represented a transition between the grade II listed Old Bakery on one side and a modern house on the other.

Extensions: The building of extensions or outbuildings or converting lofts and garages into living space has been approved for: 20 Stevenson Road, Taw Hill; 19 Primrose Close, Haydon Wick; 12 Bouverie Avenue, Lakeside; 40 Carstairs Avenue, Park South; 69 Jennings Street, Rodbourne; 156 Pinehurst Road, Pinehurst; 28 Sedgebrook, Liden and 49 Lineacre Close, Grange Park

But Craig Cook who owns 205 Kingshill Road will have to apply for proper planning permission for the side and rear extension he wants to add to the house.

Its size means planners won’t let it be built under prior permission rules.

A two-storey extension proposed for 35 Cricklade Road by E Henty has been turned down because of the effect it would have on a nearby listed buildings and a conservation area.

Borough planners said: “The development results in an excessive loss of historic fabric which affects the architectural integrity of the existing building and is incongruous with the form of the existing historic building. As a result the proposed scheme would cause harm to the character and appearance of the Conservation Area and the Grade II* listed church.”