The ground floor of a Maidenhead building has been given permission to be used as a nail salon.
Planning officers deemed that the property’s proposed change of use from a retail unit is lawful.
Elsewhere, permission has been granted for a new name to be added to a war memorial.
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Certificate of lawfulness to determine whether the proposed use of the ground floor as a nail salon is lawful (RBWM app_ 23/02785/CPU)
A certificate confirming that the use of a Maidenhead building’s ground floor as a nail salon has been granted.
The property on Queen Street had sought confirmation that this change of use from a retail unit would be allowed.
Planning officers have confirmed this, noting that both the existing and proposed use fall under the same category of Use Class E.
Listed building consent for a new name to be added to the Slough War Memorial and re-carving of existing names (P/13430/001)
A Slough soldier who died in the Second World War will have their name added to the town’s war memorial.
Listed building consent has been granted to add the soldier’s name to the Slough War Memorial at St Marys Church.
The soldier is believed to have died in September 1944 while defending a bridge in Wetteren in Belgium.
The memorial is also set to receive recutting work on the original names carved there, as they have been weathered over the years.
Certificate of lawfulness to determine whether the proposed loft conversion with rear dormer and 2 no. front rooflights is lawful (RBWM app_ 23/03063/CPD)
A Maidenhead house has been granted permission to carry out a loft conversion.
The property on Queensway had sought a certificate of lawfulness in order to confirm that the work complied with relevant policies.
Planning officers granted this, noting: “No part of the dwellinghouse would, as a result of the works, exceed the height of the highest part of the existing roof.”
They added: “It would not result in the highest part of the alteration being higher than the highest part of original roof.”
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