AN APPEAL to overturn a decision to refuse a proposal to build 13 homes has been withdrawn by a developer.
This is just one of the many applications submitted to the local authorities in Slough, Windsor, and Maidenhead in the past seven days.
To view more details for each application, go to the respective council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
Plans to convert a detached garage into an Air BnB submitted at 32 St Georges Crescent, Slough (P/09834/002).
A developer wants to transform the home’s detached garage into an Air BnB to provide accommodation for guests staying two to three nights at a time.
The guests will be mainly single individuals or families who, during their stay, constitute a single household.
The works involve implementing a kitchen, bathroom, living space, utility, and storage. The garage door has been removed and no windows facing the neighbouring properties are proposed.
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Given the intermittent, individual or family-based use will not result in significantly increased levels of noise and disturbance.
It is said the proposed change of use will assist with job creation and local economic development. It will also support an improvement in the quality of holiday accommodation in a highly sustainable location.
Slough planning officers are yet to decide on the application.
A developer has withdrawn its 13 homes plan appeal at Bellman Hanger, Shurlock Row, Reading (20/02462/FULL).
Shanley Homes lodged an appeal to try and overturn the Royal Borough’s decision to refuse its outline plans to demolish the Bellman Hanger and build 13 family homes.
Planning officers believed it was an ‘inappropriate development’ and would harm the greenbelt. They believed it would be an overdevelopment of the site that would ‘detract’ from the open and rural character and appearance of the area.
Planning officers also didn’t like the plans not offering any affordable housing.
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But Shanley Homes disagreed and lodged an appeal to overturn the decision, believing it would improve the site rather than negatively impact it. They also believed the need for family housing outweighs the harm to the greenbelt.
The developer also agreed to contribute to affordable housing via a section 106 agreement.
But Shanley Homes has since withdrawn the scheme before it was due to be heard by the independent planning inspector with no reason stated.
A developer wants to build two new homes on land at 189 Courthouse Road, Maidenhead (22/01460/FULL).
Royal Borough planning officers are yet to decide on plans to build two three-bedroom detached properties on the land.
Each home would have two car parking spaces and a private garden.
The land is part of the rear garden of 189 Courthouse Road. The development will retain the trees and greenery to the rear end of the site and there are proposed new planting in the form of trees and shrubs.
One objector wrote: “I am concerned about the size of the project which will impact neighbourhood privacy, noise, and disturbance. Driveway and car park planned along and at the back garden are not a good idea due to pollution and noise level will be exceeded. Congestion of the buildings will take our privacy away completely.”
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