Parents of Apprentice finalist Jade Nash have applied for planning permission to build two homes at their caravan park near Devizes.

Allan and Lesley Nash, of The Bell Caravan Park, Lydeway, had permission for the plan rejected by Wiltshire Council last summer but have now resubmitted the scheme.

The couple, who have run the park for about 17 years, want to build the homes in a corner of the site closest to the road but do not plan to give up the caravan business.

Miss Nash, who appeared on the BBC show starring Lord Sugar in 2012, now lives at Lydeway and has set up the digital data business she originally proposed to him.

JN Planning Consultants said in a statement to Wiltshire Council: “The planning authority considered that the previous proposal represented an unsustainable form of development, being outside of a settlement boundary with no special circumstances provided.”

The consultants point to the success of the nearby Planks Farm Shop as a reason for allowing the homes to go ahead. They said: “The farm shop is hugely popular and attracts people not just from Urchfont but also from further afield.”