Ofcom is currently assessing 127 applications from community radio stations requesting an improvement or an extension to their coverage areas.

So far, a number of radio stations have been granted further frequencies or higher power, and the regulator says the work is nearing completion.

We’ll update this list once all the requests have been made public, but for now, here are the changes approved so far:

Extra relay transmitters have been agreed for:

Cambridge 105 (Cambridge) to serve Cambourne

Forest FM (Verwood) to serve Ferndown

GTFM (Pontypridd) to serve Aberdare and surrounding areas

Bishop FM (Bishop Aukland) to serve surround areas

Erewash Sound (Ilkeston) to serve Long Eaton and surrounding areas

HCR FM (Huntingdon) to serve Warboys and surrounding villages

Zack FM (Forest Heath District) to serve Mildenhall and Newmarket

Môn FM (Anglesey) to serve parts of north Gwynedd

BFBS Edinburgh (Edinburgh barracks) to serve Glencorse Barracks

WCR (Wolverhampton) to serve parts of South Staffordshire

Eden FM (Penrith) to serve Penrith, Appleby and Kirkby Stephen and the surrounding rural area with a significant increase in the licensed area. A second relay to serve Carlise was not agreed

Extra power has been granted to:

Deveron FM to serve Portsoy and Turriff

Link FM (Parts of Sheffield) to serve all of Sheffield

Uckfield FM (Uckfield) to serve more surrounding villages

Gateway 97.8 (Basildon) to serve the surrounding areas

Park Radio (Diss) to serve Diss, Harleston and Eye and surrounding villages in the Lower Waveney Valley

Black Diamond (East and central Midlothian) to serve Midlothian

Alive Radio (Dumfries) to better serve surrounding villages

Radio Ashford (Ashford) to serve the surrounding villages

Bolton FM (Bolton) to serve surrounding areas of Bolton via a transmitter site move and power increase

First FM (OX4 area of Oxford) to serve all of Oxford

Endeavour Radio (Boston) to serve the surrounding areas

Lincoln City Radio (Lincoln) to serve the surrounding villages

And coverage improvements have been agreed for: