MCDONALDS in a main Slough road is to have its drive-thru reconfigured is just one of the many planning decisions or applications submitted to 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.
Reconfigure McDonalds drive-thru at 198 Windsor Road, Slough (P/00146/040).
Planning officers gave plans the go-ahead for the fast-food restaurant to add another lane in its drive-thru and erect another customer order display.
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This is said to make the ordering process quicker during peak hours as well as reduce congestion during those busy periods.
In the planning statement, it reads: “The operation itself is strictly controlled and allows cars to order meals, and then approach the collection point “out of sequence” whilst still obtaining the correct order.”
Other alterations include replacement drive-thru booths, new bin stores, and new digital drive-thru signage suite to replace existing signs.
Office building to be converted into housing at 88a High Street, Eton, Windsor (21/01727/FULL).
The 1980s Presentations building will be given a ‘new lease of life’ and be converted into a one-bedroom property after planning officers gave full permission.
The plan is to completely refurbish the property’s internal, including new services and plaster finished. Works will include new replacement external timber doors throughout.
The internal walls will also be altered to provide living accommodation. A new entrance to the east elevation of 88a High Street will be added.
Only one car parking space is proposed.
Demolition of an old air raid shelter at land to the rear of Ballards House and Durnford House, Eton College, Slough Road, Eton, Windsor (21/02613/LBC).
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Work has been carried to expand the two buildings’ car parking by six spaces and to allow safe access by contractors.
However, they discovered an existing concrete air raid shelter that was not identified on survey drawings due to the ‘semisubterranean nature’ of the shelter and the numerous numbers of overgrown shrubs.
New planning permission was granted for the developers to demolish the air raid shelter.
In a planning statement, it reads: “There are a number of existing concrete air raid shelters around Eton College and this structure is not seen as a significant heritage asset. In order to complete the consented works, we require demolition of the air raid shelter. Proposed soft landscaping works will replace the area of demolished structure.”
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