40 ADDISON WAY - Single storey side/rear extension, two storey rear extensions involving alterations to side.

11 MOOR PARK ROAD - Part two storey, part single storey, side/ rear extension involving rebuilding existing garage, raising of roof to allow conversion of roofspace to habitable use to include 2 rear dormers 3 side rooflights and 1 front rooflight, alterations to front elevation and installation of additional vehicular crossover entrance and alterations to driveway (Resubmission).

SUPERMARKET Waitrose has applied to extend the alcohol licence of its Northwood store.

The shop, in Green Lane, already has a licence to sell alcohol between 8am and 11pm. This covers its opening hours of 7.30am to 9pm weekdays, 7.30am to 8pm on Saturdays and 11am to 5pm on Sundays.

It wants to extend its licence to an hour earlier at 7am.

A spokesman for the store said the application was a matter of "standardising opening hours across all our shops" and the sale of alcohol would still be limited to opening hours.

39 WIELAND ROAD - Dormer to rear, porch to front involving alterations to front.

22 CRANBOURNE ROAD - Single storey side/ rear extension involving alterations to front.

A NORTHWOOD musician who feared she might never play the violin again after being diagnosed with a crippling spinal condition is celebrating her recovery.

Twelve-year-old Jasmine Turner was left devastated when doctors broke the news to her in October last year that she suffered from scoliosis, a condition which causes the spine to excessively curve sideways.

Within six months her condition had deteoriated so rapidly that she was told she would need a major operation.

A YOUNG Northwood dancer is reaching new heights after being selected to take part in an English Youth Ballet performance for the second time in a year.

Saira Mashru, 13, of the Fairview, Northwood, was chosen to to dance in a professional production of Copellia this weekend (2 and 3).

She battled off fierce competition to secure her place in the production at auditions.

A GROUP of teenagers are putting their summer holidays to good use by organising a fundraising campaign for an international charity.

The students at Merchant Taylor's School, Northwood, are taking part in the Wings of Hope achievement award.

Their mission is to raise money for the charity, which funds the education of poor and orphaned children in developing countries.

NORTHWOOD AND NORTHWOOD HILLS: 39 ROCHESTER ROAD - Single storey side/rear extension and single storey detached outbuilding to rear for use ancillary to the main dwelling involving demolition of existing detached garage to rear.

15 GATEHILL ROAD - Part single storey, part two story side/rear/front extension involving alterations to side and demolition of family room, existing detached garage and 3 outbuildings. Conversion of roof space to habitable use with 2 rooflights to side, 2 rooflights to front and 5 roof lanterns to flat roof.

A DRUNK DRIVER who mowed down and killed a couple from a Northwood synagogue has been jailed for seven years.

Jonathan Knowles, 33, was travelling at about 60 miles an hour when he ploughed into Alan and Rochelle Bernard as they walked along the pavement of a road in the exclusive Sandbanks peninsular in Poole last September.

DEMOLITION teams finally arrived at the site of the old Northwood Dining Club after 14 years of heated negotiations over its future.

Work began on knocking down the derelict hall, which was a cinema before it became a social club for older people, in High Street, Northwood, on Monday.

It will be replaced with a new community centre and eight flats.

THE PAUL Strickland Scanner Centre in Northwood is £1,000 better off thanks to the efforts of one of its fundraisers.

Jane Whitehead, 20, and boyfriend Peter O'Driscoll, 19, took part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in support of the charity, which provides scanners designed to help with the early diagnosis of cancer.

Jane was continuing a tradition set by her father Miles, who raised more than £17,000 for the charity, at Mount Vernon Hospital, Rickmansworth Road, before he died in 2005.