PLANS to knock down a training centre and replace it with a new one at Palmer Gardens in Trowbridge were approved by Wiltshire Council this week.

The authority approved The Shaw Trust’s application which sought to also have a covered walkway linking the canopy and polytunnel, a more enclosed garden centre shop area and provide more parking spaces.

No concerns were raised about the works causing any disturbance to the great crested newts in the garden centre pond in the ecology report.