Planners are set to be busy

Building works could soon be going on at various homes and businesses in Renfrewshire.

Planning permission must be granted from council chiefs before improvements can go ahead.

Recent applications made to the local authority include:

 Pruning of one oak tree at Field House, North Street, Houston

 Fix anchors into grout on front elevation to support festive light curtain at Main Building, Renfrew Town Hall, Renfrew Cross, Renfrew

 Replacement of dormer window and expansion of roof terrace at 15 Barshaw House, Blairmore Avenue, Paisley

 Formation of a front and rear dormer and two windows to roof of side elevation at 24 Lanfine Road, Paisley

 Trimming overhang branches to copper beech, silver birch and a sycamore at Barrfield, Main Street, Houston

 Formation of a window to front and side elevation of a dwellinghouse at 12 Leman Drive, Houston

 Erection of a secondstorey extension to side of 26 Craigielea Park, Renfrew

 Ere c t i o n o f c a r supermarket with sales building, ancillary workshop building, security office, vehicle sales hardstandings, parking hardstandings and associated customer and service access at land at Phoenix Park and West Avenue, Linwood Road, Paisley

 Crown reduction by 40 per cent and overhang trimming of a conifer at 21 Mccrorie Place, Kilbarchan, Johnstone

 Display of six totem signs at Unit K, Braehead Retail Park, 120 King’s Inch Drive, Renfrew

 Reconfiguration of a drive- thru lane to provide side by side ordering, installation of two customer order displays with canopies and height restrictor at Unit K, Braehead Retail Park, 120 King’s Inch Drive, Renfrew.