A REVAMP of a former Barclays Bank in the Eton High Street won’t happen as planning officers give it the thumbs down.
This is just one of the many applications submitted to 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.
A developer wants to update moorings on the riverbank adjacent to the Thames Hotel in Ray Mead Road, Maidenhead (22/02543/FULL).
On Water Developments Ltd and Pug Properties (Taplow) wants to upgrade the ‘dated’ facilities that are needing ‘substantial’ repair and maintenance.
For the site to continue to be used as leisure for boat users, new moorings are proposed with angular pontoons to increase the number of moorings on the site.
A new pontoon connecting the island site to the outer moorings to the west is also proposed.
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Two M350 Bluefield Boats are also proposed – with one of them being used as an office while the other being used by local water-related clubs, such as paddle boarding.
The boats will be fixed to the moorings and will rise and fall with the water level. Electricity points will be installed on the moorings to replace the outdated ones that currently exist on site.
Planning officers are yet to decide on the application.
Several buildings are set to be demolished for a new warehouse and office at Colndale Road/Arkwright Road, Colnbrook, Slough (P/19954/000).
The Poyle Trading Estate will soon see seven buildings replaced by two contemporary two-storey buildings, holding four units.
The warehouses and offices provide 6,846sqm of floor space for a range of employment use, such as light industrial. The plans also include 98 car parking spaces – four of which are disabled bays - and nine cycle racks that can hold two bicycles each.
Developer Lothbury Property Trust Co Ltd had its plans unanimously approved by councillors at a planning committee on Thursday, September 29.
A former bank won’t see a major revamp at 8 High Street, Eton, Windsor (22/00861/FULL).
Royal Borough planning officers have turned down plans for a developer to transform the closed-down Barclays Bank, which has been vacant for several years, into a new business and flats.
The freeholders of the property, Mr and Mrs Woods, wanted to add two two-bedroom flats on the ground floor but keep the front of the property for commercial use.
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The residential areas on the upper floors will remain as is.
The new layout makes use of the existing walls and openings to create the two flats and proposes new openings in the south, east and north elevations to allow for sufficient levels of daylight and ventilation and to allow a high-quality spatial arrangement. There is no proposed increase in footprint.
A small ‘floating’ bay window is proposed at the rear of the building to create a seating area and a comfortably sized kitchen.
The roof of the single-storey south extension is to be raised slightly in response to the raised internal floor level to allow for ‘comfortable’ floor-to-ceiling heights throughout.
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