NEW plans to add nearly 100 flats in the town centre – this is just one of the many plans submitted or determined by Slough Borough Council or the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
To view more details for each application, go to the respective council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
Outline plans to demolish town centre buildings for new flats return at 277-279 High Street, Slough (P/01276/004).
Developers Manhattan Assets No9 Ltd has submitted new outline plans to redevelop those buildings in the Slough town centre and create 99 apartments with 39 car parking spaces and two retail units on the ground floor.
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The redevelopment will consist of three buildings, one of a single storey link building for cycle store and reception area, one ground plus a six-storey building to the front, one ground plus a 12-storey block to the rear providing the flats.
Further details on the plans would require approval in the form of another application as this one only covers access, layout and scale at this stage.
Other details of the plans are unknown as a planning statement is not currently publicly available.
Previous outline plans were approved by Slough Borough Council to demolish buildings on 277-279 High Street for 57 flats in January 2020.
Planning officers will decide whether or not to approve the latest plans.
Fresh plans submitted to demolish GP surgery for new homes at Green Meadow Surgery and Knightswood, Winkfield Road, Ascot (21/02445/FULL).
Developers are back with a new scheme to redevelop the existing doctor’s surgery and detached house, outbuildings, and car park to erect two five-bed detached houses fronting Winkfield Road, two four-bed detached houses fronting the Avenue, and two pairs of four-bed semi-detached houses fronting Ronald Court.
Previously, the applicant reduced the number of homes from 11 to nine and added sufficient parking and amenity space in the scheme following pre-application talks.
But they withdrew their plans in April 2021 after objectors wanted the plans to be refused on the grounds some of the homes will block natural sunlight into their houses, the loss of privacy, and the site being overdeveloped, creating a ‘cramped’ development.
Developers hope by reducing the mass of the homes and spacing them out further, it will be more in keeping with the street scene.
The fate of the plans now rests in the Royal Borough’s planning officers’ hands.
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Council set to upgrade the facade of its fire escape at the Maidenhead Town Hall, St Ives Road, Maidenhead (21/01652/FULL).
Planning officers gave permission for the council to transform its fire escape it an “attractive public space for social interaction”.
It includes feature landscape screens that wrap around the staircase and sit “harmoniously” within the enhanced landscaped area, which includes new plants and trees. Art panels will also be erected.
In the design and access statement, it states: “The use of metal material is robust, durable and vandal resistant. The engraved laser cut design brings more visibility to the staircase, while lower maintenance cost in the long run makes this solution our preferred option in every aspect of analysis.”
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