Haydon Wick: The parish council has applied to be allowed to have the 2m fence surrounding the Haydonleigh skate park off Haydonleigh Drive torn down and replaced with a 3m fence.

If approved, the work will cost £11,800. The park was redesigned and refurbished at a cost of £180,000 last summer and opened in September.

Blagrove: Chemical company Catalent Pharma Solutions wants to be able to install a water treatment plant at its site in Frankland Road.

The company says it needs to be able to continue to discharge waste water into the public sewers owned by Thames Water, but it is anticipating new regulations on pollution.

It therefore needs to be able to treat its own waste water before sending it into the public sewer.

If permitted, tanks will be constructed into which the water is sent, where it will be then treated with chemicals. It will be tested after treatment and – if it meets new regulations – will be discharged. If it fails will be processed again and retested until satisfactory.

Catalent’s application says the tanks will be contained within a bund, which can hold more water than the tanks in case of leakage or damage.

The company says: “The proposed plant would enable further growth of existing site activities within the facility and provide cost savings by eliminating the need to tanker wastewater off-site.”

Old Town: An empty shop at the top of Victoria Road at the junction with Bath Road will become a tattoo parlour. Applicant S Ricketts’ plan to convert with building for inking has been approved. Mr Ricketts said there would be minimal changes to the unit.

Central: A hairdresser’s shop in Westcott Place is to be converted into a laundrette. Bakr Omed, of Cricklade Road, has been given approval to convert the unit, the West One salon, into a laundromat.

The only difference to external appearance of the building on the roundabout junction at the south east corner of GWR Park will be a venting duct taking warm air from the drying machines out.

Bishopstone: New homes for newts will be constructed at the organic farm run by farmer and restaurateur Helen Browning. Her application to dig out four ponds specifically as new habitats for the protected great-crested newts displaced by construction work elsewhere has been approved under the local licensing scheme

Three will be on land south of Botwicky Copse, and one in Marrall Woods west of Idstone.

Extensions: Plans to build extensions to houses or outbuildings or to convert lofts and garages to habitable rooms have been approved for 10 Jupiter Close, Blunsdon; 109 Whitworth Road, Pinehurst; 168 Marlborough Road, Lawn; 11 Gairlock Close, Sparcells; 46 Corby Avenue Lakeside; 133 Marlborough Road, Lawn; ad 28 Victoria Cross Road, Wroughton.

The owners of 8 John Herring Crescent in Stratton St Margaret will have to apply for formal planning consent for the extension they wish to build on their home.

David Smith and Mandy Brown were told by council officers that consent was needed for the extension at the back as it joins on to the garage, and the combined depth of the garage and extension is greater than the 6m limit for rules allowing extensions to be built without having to get planning permission.

Permission for extensions is sought for 27 Calder Close, Haydon Wick; and 29 Highworth Road.