HOPES that former Devizes Mayor and businessman Charles Winchcombe, who died earlier this year, was to be remembered by having a street named in his honour have been dashed.

The town council put forward the name of of Winchcombe Mews for a new development of six homes off Elm Tree Close being built by Hannick Homes.

But Wiltshire Council now says there is no need for an extra street name as numbering of Elm Tree Close can just be extended. The council said it would keep the name on record for other new developments in Devizes.