The following are planning bids, appeals and decisions made in Wiltshire, recently:

Sutton Benger: Plans for nearly 180 houses in Sutton Benger get rejected by Wiltshire Council.

Developers Land Allocation Ltd had its plans to build 178 houses on land to the east of Church View thwarted.

When considering the plans officers looked at the considerable opposition to the scheme from not only the parish council but hundreds of residents.

In total 237 representations against Land Allocation’s plans were received by the council’s planning team.

Chief among concerns were schools places, traffic increases, lack of amenities, sustainability and flood risks.

In their report, officers wrote: “Sutton Benger has already experienced a high level of growth. The primary school is already expanding to cater for existing permitted development. It is on a small site and is unlikely to be suitable for expansion.

“This will contribute to the need for a significant amount of out commuting which is not a sustainable form of development.”

In declining the bid, planning offices cited the scheme’s sitting outside of the settlement boundary, exceeding development scale as well as a lack of available school places.

They continued: “The proposal would result in the significant urbanisation of this rural site which would result in harm to the local character, appearance and visual amenity of the immediate locality.

“It would also result in the loss of this rural gap on the edge of this rural village. This together with the scale, mass and density of the scheme, poor design of public areas, lack of space for appropriate landscaping of the built development would also result in a scheme that would fail to provide a high quality development in this prominent rural landscape due to the quantum of development proposed.”

Little Somerford: A certificate of lawfulness has been refused for plans to use two agricultural buildings for storage.

Edward Greenhill Firs Farm, Swindon Road in Little Somerford submitted the now declined bid to Wiltshire Council for barns at his farm.

In declining the bid, officers wrote: “The local planning authority, based on the evidence provided and available to it, is not satisfied that the evidence submitted is sufficiently precise and unambiguous to confirm a continuous use of the buildings for storage purposes within Use Class B8 throughout the requisite 10-year period, that being the 10 years prior to the submission of the application.”

Christian Malford: Developers have laid out plans to build four houses in a Wiltshire parish.

Spire House Developers have submitted plans to Wiltshire Council to build four houses at Malford Farmhouse.

It is proposed that the developers will construct the houses to have up to four bedrooms.

Baydon: Plans have been submitted to transform stables into a house.

Mr and Mrs Pike of Finchley, Finches Lane in Baydon have applied to Wiltshire Council to convert L-shaped tables into a three bedroom house.

Devizes: Plans to build a sizeable extension in Devizes has been approved by Wiltshire Council.

Mark Williams 65 Longcroft Road bid to demolish part of the existing house on the property, garage and boundary treatments to install a new extension.

The new extension will be built onto the side of the bungalow which will consist of three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a utility room.

The plans also include permission to build a new garage for the property and the installation of a flue.

The town council raised no objections to the plans and resident, Vicki Phillips, said: “This is a lovely young family who deserve a lovely property to live in with plenty of space to grow.”

Sutton Veny: Plans to build an utility room extension have been approved.

Mr Baber of 11 Bests Lane in Sutton Veny has won planning permission to build an extension to create a utility room, car port and first floor accommodation at his home.

Winsley: Plans to build stables for personal use have been granted approval by Wiltshire Council.

Mr Warner of Haugh Farm submitted a bid to build three stables and a tack room at the farm for personal use, which has now been given the green light by officers.

Winsley Parish Council said it would offer no objections to the plans saying that plans would not create extra traffic or negatively impact neighbours.