Bucks bakery could set up shop at former Ascot Lloyds TSB bank

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 leading GP practice withdraws plans to erect a temporary consultation room at 22 Whitby Road, Slough (P/04554/007).

Shreeji Medical Centre (Image: Google Maps)

Shreeji Medical Centre, which caters to 6,353 registered patients, wants to install a single-storey portacabin at the site for one year.

This will be used as a consultation room and will help ease the increasing number of patients.

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The building will have an overall floor space of 18m² and the proposed location offers the ‘best’ free, utilisable space as it offers all required services: power, network, and surfacing.

However, the practice withdrew the application, meaning it won’t go ahead.

A former bank could see a lease of life as a bakery at 21 High Street, Ascot (22/02381/FULL).

The former Lloyds TSB bank could become a bakery (Image: Google Maps)

An independent family-run business known as Our Rex Bakery could open a new chain at the former Lloyds TSB Bank if planning officers approve its plans.

The scheme includes new steps, external seating area, installation of an air conditioning unit to the rear, and a new side entrance.

The bakery began life in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, about nine years ago and is wanting a new store in Ascot after ‘carefully considering’ other areas.

Within the planning statement, it states: “We expect to deliver the highest quality baked food including organic and free range ingredients, delightful look and ambience in keeping with all the principles of the Royal Borough, high footfall and new employment, highest customer satisfaction.

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“We have read the Ascot Town plan and we are exactly the kind of business envisaged within that; we will dramatically improve the appearance and vibrancy of that end of the high street and will faithfully follow the planning practices of both the previous tenants and the surrounding area.”

The business stated it is already striking a partnership with Royal Ascot. It has also applied for an alcohol licence, food and hygiene licence, and business rates.

Installation of a 5G mast won’t go ahead on a grass verge at the junction of Link Road and Horton Road, Datchet (22/01591/TLDTT).

The junction where the 5G mast could have been erected (Image: Google Maps)

CK Hutchinson Networks (UK) Ltd was blocked from erecting a 15m with associated cabinets as part of its wider rollout of 5G.

It was asking for prior approval, which would bypass the planning process to speed up development.

However, planning officers refused its scheme, believing it would be ‘visually dominant’ and could impact the character of the area.

Datchet Parish Council echoed the planning officer’s views, adding: “We feel the location is wrong and should be placed across the street away from the residential area on the opposite side of Horton Road not on the residential side where the effect to the street scene will be minimized and be a compromise to residents’ concerns on the technology, style, design and size.”