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Parking in Wood Street PARKING spaces must be provided for new HMOs and some business developments in the town centre under new rules. An update to the borough's parking standards for developers was agreed by the council's planning committee. It means those who want to convert family homes into shared houses of multiple occupation will have to provide some parking, even in the central zone of town where new developments do not need to come with spaces. And more business developments will be expected to have parking provision. But the size of the central zone will remain the same and...

TRAFFIC chaos worries and fears for child safety have pushed back plans for 250 new homes by a busy Highworth road. It is feared that Gladman’s outline proposal for the development on Shrivenham Road would add an unmanageable amount of extra vehicles to a street which is regularly congested with cars, coaches and HGVs. Concerned neighbour Norman Jeffery said during the last Swindon Borough Council planning committee meeting that parked cars make the road one-way near the Fox roundabout, it is jammed at drop-off and pick-up times for the two schools there, and a three-foot-wide pavemen...