Details on controversial Maidenhead 235 homes plan revealed

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 won’t be allowed to create more flats at 59-63 Farnham Road, Slough (F/11168/016).

The office building won't see an extension to create more flats (Image: Google Maps)

Sterling Ventures London Ltd wanted to construct a two-storey roof extension on the four-storey Phoenix One office building in order to build 36 apartments.

Permission was previously granted to convert the 5,165sqm office building into 56 flats.

The developer proposed a mix that would include one and two-bedrooms, as well as 92 car parking spaces, including seven disabled bays, three electric charging vehicle spaces, and 95 cycle parking spaces.

But planning officers rejected the developer’s request for prior approval, which would effectively bypass the planning process to speed up development if the council didn’t object.

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Officers believed there was insufficient evidence provided to show there wouldn’t be a parking war between the future residents and nearby office workers.

“This lack of parking provision may lead to on-street parking in an area where such opportunities are very limited and would lead to significant risk to highway safety,” a planning officer wrote.

St Marks Hospital granted permission to erect parking enforcement cameras at St Marks Road, Maidenhead (22/02983/FULL).

The NHS Property Services was given the go-ahead to install six automatic number plate recognition cameras and two pay and display machines to add additional parking enforcement measures at the hospital.

Healthcare bosses said this scheme will help facilitate the availability of parking spaces for St Mark’s Hospital staff and visitors thereby supporting the efficient operation of the health facility.

But two residents wrote in to object to the scheme, believing these new measures could result in an influx of visitors parking on their street.

One local said: “Parking for residents along our road is already limited and I fear this increase in hospital visitors wanting free parking and therefore using our road would make it close to impossible to park for residents.”

Details revealed on plans to build over 200 homes at Kimbers Lane, Maidenhead (22/03361/EIASCR).

Layout of where the 235 homes could be placed (Image: Taylor Wimpey)

Developer Taylor Wimpey has revealed an insight into their plans to build up to 235 homes on land south and east of Badgers Wood.

The land is part of land south of Harvest Hill Road, which is earmarked for about 600 homes as part of the Borough Local Plan. Just next door is the controversial Maidenhead golf course site that could be developed into 2,000 homes.

Taylor Wimpey states the apartments could be up to four-storeys in height and the homes could be up to three-storeys.

Vehicle access to the site will be served from Harvest Hill Road in order to avoid the need to remove veteran trees, which are proposed to be retained.

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Landscaping will be interspersed throughout the development, with a large open space in the southern part of the site. This area will be designed to increase biodiversity.

This is not a formal planning application as Taylor Wimpey is only submitting its environmental impact assessment of the site, which sets out what effect development could have on the environment on the site.

Royal Borough planning officers are yet to determine the request. Approving it does not mean development will start as a formal application has not been submitted yet.