Section
Applications, objections and things that may one day be built.
A haulage firm wants to park its vans in Swindon, and a man in Leeds will decide whether that is acceptable.
· 2 min read
Six digital advertising totems are proposed for the Swindon Designer Outlet, in what planners are being asked to treat as a delicate matter of heritage rather than, say, a big telly on a stick.
· 3 min read
Residents fear the gap between Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett is now so narrow you could lose it down the back of a planning committee's sofa.
· 3 min read
A plan for 11 lock ups behind Newport Street has been withdrawn amid fears that anything built to keep things safe might also help someone climb into next door's garden.
· 3 min read
Plans for a new bakery on Cheney Manor Industrial Estate raise the question nobody asked: is there a ceiling on sausage rolls, and if so, has Swindon found it yet.
· 3 min read
Officers conclude enforcement would be pointless against a thing that had already happened, a principle residents now hope to apply to extensions, hedges and Gary Tench's expense claims.
· 3 min read
Residents have six weeks to say exactly what they think, which the council will then weigh against a number it was handed already fixed.
· 3 min read
The building has now applied for permission to exist as homes more times than most people apply for anything in their whole lives.
· 3 min read
Swindon Council to decide whether a building that once hummed with microprocessors can now hum with Radio 2 and the occasional argument about recycling.
· 1 min read
From garden rooms to a single ash tree with a reference number longer than its trunk, democracy in action never looked so quietly furious.
· 1 min read
Plans for Walnut Court in Kembrey Park would see the former utility headquarters converted into homes, with sixteen bins, 177 parking spaces and, locals suspect, unusually good plumbing.
· 3 min read
Happy Acre, Blunsdon, built in 1969 for farmers only, seeks permission to stop pretending someone there grows turnips.
· 3 min read
