Another closed social club can be turned into apartments.
Swindon Borough Council planners have approved a proposal by Patrick Slattery of Highworth to convert the closed Albion Sports and Social Club on the corner of Bridge Street and Henry Street into seven apartments.
The building is actually made up of three different structures as requested by Mr. Slattery, who states: “The stone building is an old Baptist school, built in 1868, while the other two buildings are newer and date from the early 1900s. Twentieth century.
“The site was used, until September 2017, as a private sports and social club, created about forty years ago. The club left the premises in September 2018.”
The original plan was to convert the buildings into 10 one-bed apartments – but after much discussion the approved proposal is for two one-person apartments, four one-bedroom two-person apartments and one three-person two-bed apartment.
DOWNTOWN
A minor trend is emerging for projects to build additional floors on shops or office buildings in the city center for the construction of apartments.
After a plan was tabled to do so in Commercial Road, a new proposal was made by London-based company Amanda Holdings Ltd to put two floors on the empty store unit officially used by Co-operative Funeral Care in Regent Street .
The plan is to use these floors and the existing first floor of the building for nine apartments.
DOWNTOWN
The ground floor of 14, rue Lorne, which serves as a hairdressing salon, can be converted into a dwelling. Pasquale Billota’s proposal was approved.
NORTH STAR
Animal care students at New College Swindon in North Sta will have a new teaching pad to use. The College has received permission to construct a one-storey specialist block in place of an old temporary building.
The new educational block will have a cold room, a hot room, a treatment room for exotic mammals, a hot room for reptiles and a room for the medical treatment and quarantine of animals .
CENTRAL
A detached house, with three bedrooms, on two floors and a basement could become two apartments. A MN Underwood requested the conversion of 8 Cambria Bridge Road into flats.
The conversion seems like a complicated arrangement.
The plans show that an apartment will have its living room, kitchen and bathroom in the basement with the bedroom on the ground floor. The other apartment will have its main living space on the ground floor with bathroom, kitchen and dining room on the upper floor.
WIDE GREEN
Developer Chris Merritt has tabled plans to build an extension to 94 Manchester Road and divide the detached house into three one-bedroom apartments.
HAYDON WICK: Faye Murray’s request to be able to use a parcel of what was green land on the corner of her property as a garden and extend her fence around it has been approved.
INGLESHAM
A proposal by Mark Walsh to demolish the modern buildings at Lynt Farm in the village north of Highworth and convert the historic buildings, including the coach house, into three houses has been withdrawn,
EXTENSIONS
Applications have been made to build extensions or new outbuildings, or to convert lofts and garages into bedrooms at: 125 Bath Road Old Town; The Old Stable, Hampton Lane, Hampton; Apple Trees Street, Castle Eaton; 27 Tortworth Road, Redhouse; 40 Edale Moor, Liden.
Similar applications have been approved for: 9 Summerhouse Road, Wroughton; 3 Liden of Sedgebrook; 60 Banwell Ave, Walcot; 61 Sywell Road, Stratton St Margaret; 44 Beverley, Toothpaste; 18 Greenfields, South Marston, 23 The Fairway, Broome Manor and 59 Churchward Avenue, Rodbourne Cheney.
