A new storage facility with 20 shipping containers available for customers to rent could be set up on agricultural land north of Swindon.
Wiltshire Council has received a planning application that concerns South Farm near Castle Eaton.
The applicant is seeking permission to set up a self-storage facility on a site that is legally agricultural land but no longer used as such.
Each container would be 6m in length by 2.4m in width and 2.6m in height.
According to the application, customers would be able to visit the premises and load or unload their containers between the hours of 8am and 6pm during the week and between 8am and 1pm on Saturdays, with no access on Sundays or bank holidays.
The application states: “The proposed containers would make efficient use of this parcel of land providing a use that can be assimilated into the rural location to a greater degree than the lawful adhoc storage of pallets.
“It is therefore respectfully requested that planning permission is granted.”
Meanwhile, Wiltshire Council received and considered many other planning applications this week.
The Hullavington Arms pub in Hullavington has been nominated to be listed as an asset of community value.
New homes were proposed at: Moonrakers, Wylye Road, Hanging Langford, Salisbury, SP3 4NN; Land to the West of Travis Perkins Trading Company, Lanes End, Gastard, Corsham, SN13 9QS; 4 Braemar Rise, Salisbury, SP1 3QB; Land at Mill Lane, Corston, Malmesbury, SN16 0HH.
Applications for new dwellings were approved at: Home Farm, Knockdown, GL8 8QY; Cedarwood, 6 Kings Road, Easterton, Devizes, SN10 4PT; 100 Seymour Road, Trowbridge, BA14 8LZ.
Planning applications for outbuildings, including garages and car ports, have been received for: Ambrose Farm, Lamplands, Ramsbury, Marlborough, SN8 2PW; 88 Frome Road, Maiden Bradley, Warminster, BA12 7JA; Pipers Barn, East Grafton, Marlborough, SN8 3DB; Bryn Cottage, 14 Calcutt Street, Cricklade, Swindon, SN6 68D; Carvers Hill Farm, Carvers Hill, Shalbourne, SN8 3PS; Riverside Cottage, High Street, Wyle, Warminster. BA12 0QU; 44, Seend Cleeve, Seend, Melksham, SN12 6PY.
Similar applications have been approved at: 37 Calcutt Street, Cricklade, Swindon, SN6 6BA; Manor Farm, The Street, Grittleton, Chippenham, SN14 6AN; 12 Mustang Close, Westbury, BA13 3FH; 120 Bouverie Avenue South, Salisbury, SP2 8EA.
