A gypsy and traveller caravan site could be expanded to provide facilities to help residents cook safely and maintain basic hygiene - if new plans are given the go-ahead.

The Mansion Lane caravan park in Iver could be made bigger to provide space for nine more pitches, which would each have room for one mobile home, one touring caravan and one day room.

The dayrooms, which the applicants say will fit in with all the nearby buildings, will provide a kitchen and a bathroom.

Writing on behalf of the applicant, an agent said: “[The dayrooms] will provide facilities that enable the occupants of the caravans to minimise the recognised hazards associated with cooking and fire in the close confines of caravans and provide facilities for washing and bathing and the maintenance of basic hygiene, constructed out of brick as in keeping with the surrounding developments in the area.”

Permission was granted for the caravan park back in October 2014.

The need for extra caravan spaces and dayrooms will “meet a recognised need, and a personal need, for such facilities in the area to facilitate a gypsy lifestyle”.

The documents added: “Please note in regards to making the decision that there are children living on the site and as such any decision taken by the council should be made having considered the best interests of the children on the site.”

If the plans are allowed to go ahead, the new caravans would be sited on the south side of the caravan park, into a neighbouring field.

The site bordered on the northern side by the Grand Union Canal Slough arm.

You can view the plans in full using the planning reference PL/22/1496/FA at the Buckinghamshire Council planning portal.