A successful health supplement business near Devizes has applied to extend a storage building.

Metabolics, which has been operating since 1991, operates from Eastcott Common near Easterton but there is no space for further expansion there.

The company, which sells nutritional supplements, has applied to build an extension to a workshop it owns at Broadway, Market Lavington.

It is using the workshop for storage and the extension would allow for the mixing, packaging and storage of its products. Five people would be employed there.

Earlier this month, a planning inquiry heard that Metabolics had made an offer on land at the former Bureau West site off Horton Road, Devizes, three years ago but the deal fell through.

In a submission to Wiltshire Council for the new planning application in Market Lavington, Metabolics’ agent Richard Cosker said: “The proposal is a sustainable development that will provide necessary employment opportunities for people living in the locality and thereby reduce the need to travel to access work.

“This proposal will also allow a successful rural enterprise to expand and thereby bring further economic benefit to the rural area.”