Great Western Hospital: A £15m revamp designed to see more space for clinical needs in the main hospital building could see patients picking up medicines and seeking urgent care in temporary buildings during the work.

Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has put in three separate planning applications to Swindon Borough Council.

Hospital bosses want to put a two-storey office block for administration staff at the eastern end of the site, a one-storey prefab at the northern end to house the pharmacy and a larger single-storey urgent care centre in a space in the car park behind the main L-shaped building.

The care centre would have 16 consulting and treatment rooms, two triage and assessment rooms, the usual offices and lavatories and two waiting rooms, one specifically for paediatrics.

The trust says the buildings are necessary to house staff while changes to increase clinical capacity in the main building are made.

South Marston: A company that produces biofuel gas from household waste will be able to install a new generator. And that generator will be run by gas. It will be hooked up to the mains at Advanced Biofuels Solutions’ unit at the Marston Gate estate, in Stirling Road, to provide electricity for the company.

Haydon Wick: Having constructed a balcony at the first-floor window of the back of their house in Ebor Close, owners Mr and Mrs Bennett are breathing a sigh of relief.

Their retrospective application for planning permission for the pergola over the back door, which has glass balustrades put up around it at the upper storey to create a small balcony, has been granted. If it had been refused, the couple may have been required to remove the structure.

Crombey Street: A plan to enlarge an end-of-terrace house in the town centre and divide it into flats has been refused. Developer Amritpal Sanghera, who lives in Walsall, had applied to build a two-storey extension at the back of 31 Crombey Street, and end of terrace two-up-two down on the corner of Stanier Street.

That would have allowed him to divide the house into two two-bedroom flats. But the impact on neighbours meant planners have turned down the scheme. They said it would cause 'visual dominance, overshadowing and overbearing impact and loss of light and outlook' to number 32.

Westmead: Fears over more traffic and parking difficulties have led to the withdrawal of a plan to change a warehouse and office unit in Westmead Industrial Estate into a gym. Kevin Weise, from Faringdon, has pulled his proposal to use the two-storey unit for exercise classes and activities after neighbours objected and Swindon Borough Council’s highways officer recommend planners refuse his application.

Chiseldon: The expansion of the popular Three Trees Farm Shop in Chiseldon is one step closer. Planners have approved the construction management plan put forward by the farm’s Ian McMurray for constructing a two-storey extension on the site of the building, which will allow a café and increased shop floor space.

Extensions: Plans to build extensions, conservatories or outbuildings or to convert garages and outbuildings have been approved for: 1 Pencarrow Close, Haydon; 19 Millard Road and 9 Hewlett Place, both in Blunsdon St Andrew; 4 Kelmscot Road, Penhill; 30 Avonmead, Haydon Wick; 10 Kipling Garden, and 2 Rainer Close both Stratton St Margaret; 24 Morris Street, Rodbourne; 30 Rochford Close, Grange Park; 2 Farleigh Crescent, Lawn and 18 Greywethers Avenue Old Town.

Trees: Work on trees has been approved for 11 and 17 The Pitches, Wroughton – separate applications; 73a Priors Hill Wroughton; Spindlewood, Mount Pleasant, Bishopstone; Hampton Farm, Hampton Lane, Hampton; 1 Minster Close, Haydon Wick; Hillside Belmont Crescent, Old Town; 48 Okebourne Park, Liden and The Manor Farm, Lady Lane, Priory Vale.