There is a tale of warning for prospective developers when submitting retrospective planning applications, as this week's list of submitted plans shows.

One developer's work has been okayed, but another may have to remove an extension to avoid enforcement action.

Central:  Pupils taking part in sports indoors at the secondary school in Ocotal Way will no longer have to dodge drips from the roof after the college’s proposal to replace the domed ‘skylight’ for the sports hall has been approved.

The college has been given the go-ahead to cover the dome with new material, which it says will be light in colour to reflect more sunlight and prevent over-heating the room. Its application said the existing materials leaked when it rained.

Central: Swindon Town has been given permission to site a hot food takeaway van at the corner of two stands, next to the club shop on matchdays. The club will not do the catering itself but will invite a vendor to use the pitch.

Railway Village: One of the conditions on materials to be used in refurbishing more of the historic GWR Carriageworks in Sheppard Street has been signed off. Swindon Borough Council’s contractor’s choice for mortar for repointing the Victorian brick work has been approved.

Units of the building are being transformed into office or educational spaces, building on the success of the Workshed and the universities already using the building.

Central: Developer Mehmet Korkmaz of First Construction will be relieved that his retrospective application for permission to convert the upstairs of the shop at 45 Havelock Street has been approved.

He had already extended the building, constructed an apartment on the upper floor and added a rear fie escape and access when he asked for permission. Despite the concerns of the council’s urban design officer about several issues including bike parking and whether there was sufficient private open space the conversion has been okayed.

Freshbrook: Despite objections from half a dozen neighbours I Samuel has been given permission to use the house at 22 Castle Dore as a seven-person shared house or HMO. The plans submitted show there will be four bedrooms on the first floor of the large family home, and three on the ground floor, with a shared kitchen, living room and conservatory.

One of the objections raised was that a similar plan has been refused permission in 2008.

 

Extensions: Applications have been lodged to extend hoses or to put up outbuildings or convert garages and outbuildings to habitable rooms at Walton House, 10 Westlecot Road, Old Town; 4 Cole Close, Covingham; 9 Keyneston Road, Nythe; 251 Marlborough Road; 79 Fairlawn, Liden;  45 High Street, Wroughton; 56 Montagu Street Rodbourne; 1 Hampshire Close, Ramleaze; 147 Meadowcroft, Stratton St Margaret; 9 Malthouse Close, Blunsdon; 21 Fernacre Road, East Wichel and Marlborough House  in Okus Road.

Such applications have been approved for:  46 Sutton  Park, Blunsdon; 30 Biddel Springs, Highworth, 55 Bowood Road, Kingshill; 100 Bruce Street, Rodbourne; 44 Sandgate Stratton St Margaret;  55 Sunnyside Avenue, Kingshill; 15 Sandringham Road, Lawn; 60 Upham Road, Old Walcot; 6 Crispin Close, Stratton St Margaret; 34 Wickdown Avenue, Moredon; 319 Ferndale Road – a retrospective application – and 143 Morris Street, Rodbourne.

Moredon: Yiadom Bochaie may have to remove the extension already built at 59 Purton Road or face enforcement action, which could go as far as being taken to court.

The work on the extension to the house was completed in October, but the planning application put in after that to make it legal has been refused.

Neighbours had written to planners with concerns over drainage and privacy and planners agreed. The decision from Euclid Street said: “The development, due to its proximity to and the vastness of glazing adjacent to the property at No.57 has a detrimental impact on their residential amenities in respect of overbearingness, loss of outlook and loss of privacy.”