Slough commercial building to make way for 50 flats

The news comes as the area undergoes a transformation from commercial to residential use.

Meanwhile, Slough Trading Estate remains a location for commercial use, albeit for more modern uses as a place for data storage.

Elsewhere, 80 homes are set for a village near Slough, and a plan to knock down a bungalow and replace it with homes in Maidenhead has been refused.

You can view each application by typing the application reference number in brackets into the relevant council’s planning portal.

Demolition of industrial building to make way for flats (Slough app P/19642/000)

A 3D design of the project to replace industrial buildings with Grace House, an approved apartment building in Petersfield Avenue, Slough. Credit: Danks Badnell Architects

Grace House, an industrial building in Petersfield Avenue is set to be demolished and replaced with a five-storey building containing flats.

The building used to be the home of A1 Gifts and Furnishings, which closed down in 2017 and is currently being used as the temporary offices of its owners, Omega 10 Ltd.

Grace House in Petersfield Avenue, Slough. Credit: Google Maps

Now it can be replaced with a new building containing 50 apartments, right next to BMW House, a building containing 34 flats that was completed in 2019.

A Slough Borough Council planning officer approved the project on May 22.

Huge data centre at Trading Estate approved (P/20054/001)

A CGI of an approved plan for a data centre at the Slough Trading Estate. Credit: Reid Brewin Architects / Arup / Exterior Architecture

Equinix, the multi-national data company has won approval to build a new data storage facility at the Slough Trading Estate.

The project involves demolishing warehouse units Units 9-13 in Banbury Avenue and replacing them with a five-storey data facility.

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‘Data halls’ will be situated across each of the floors containing 30 million watts plus of storage.

The building was approved by Slough Borough Council on May 20.

Development of 80 homes in village near Slough approved (RBWM 22/02737/FULL)

The site plan for the approved project for 80 homes near Slough and the M4 in the village of Datchet. Credit: Inland Homes

A development of 80 homes in the village of Datchet has been approved.

The project involves the construction of a mix of homes and apartments between London Road and the M4.

A CGI of the approved project for 80 homes near Slough and the M4 in the village of Datchet. Credit: Inland Homes

The development will provide seven five-bed, 19 four-bed, 32 three-bed, and four two-bed houses, and six two-bed and 12 one-bed flats, which will be contained in one apartment building.

The plan was approved by the Royal Borough’s planning department on May 23.

Plan to replace bungalow in Maidenhead refused (RBWM app 23/01828/FULL)

A bungalow in Grenfell Road, Maidenhead, where a plan to replace it with four homes has been refused. Credit: WaM Architecture / Google Maps

A project to replace a bungalow and outbuildings in Grenfell Road, Maidenhead with four new homes has been refused.

Satalan Developments were hoping to demolish the buildings and replace them with two five-bed detached homes and two four-bed semi-detached homes.

The refused site plan for a project to replace a bungalow in Grenfell Road, Maidenhead, with four homes. Credit: WaM Architecture

However, the Royal Borough’s planning department ruled that would have a detrimental impact on trees both on-site and off-site, as the existing buildings are surrounded by trees.

Satalan Developments also failed to enter a legal agreement to secure off-site biodiversity enhancements, leading to the refusal of the project on May 24.