CHEPSTOW Town planners will tonight discuss an application to extend a TV studio in the town.

Urban Myth Films Ltd aim to extend the current set of BBC One's Atlantis into the second half of the former Tesco warehouse located on the Newhouse Farm Industrial Estate.

The film producers have applied for temporary change of use at the coldstore, now that the show has been given confirmation of a second series.

The company has been filming in the first half of the studio since initial planning permission was granted in February this year. The second part of the warehouse is almost double the size of the current set, and if granted permission the studio will occupy the entire building.

The applicants, Peter Brett Associates LLP, working on behalf of Urban Myth Films, said in their application: "The first series has been filmed on the sets created within the building at Chepstow and on location in Morocco. This will continue for the second series but it is intended to create more and larger sets for this new series."

If given permission, work on the building will begin in early 2014 and filming for the new series will start in the spring.

The second series will be aired in autumn next year and it is hoped that the show 'may run for five years or more.'

"The result will be an even more significant investment in the local economy from the TV company, which will secure hundreds of jobs for local people," said the applicant.