Snooker bar in Slough set to become shop and flats

Bar H in the High Street, Langley appears to be inactive, with a developer winning permission to convert it into a shop and add flats to it. 

Elsewhere, progress is being made on creating a huge data centre in Slough, and an ambitious plan for a replacement swimming pool for an elite riverside house in Maidenhead has been rejected.

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Pool bar set for conversion into shop and flats (Slough app P/00372/022)

A sports bar in Langley is set to be turned into a shop with four flats above it.

Bar H in the High Street provided professional pool and snooker tables as well as drinks and entertainment to visitors.

Now the building it occupied can be repurposed with a shop on the ground floor and four two-bedroom flats on the first floor and a second floor created by an extension. The project was approved by Slough Borough Council (SBC) on August 14.

It is not clear what will happen to the Bar H business, as the bar is currently listed as 'temporarily closed'.

Construction details for huge data centre approved (Slough app P/20054/003)

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

Progress is being made on a project to build a huge new data facility at the Slough Trading Estate.

Earlier this year, multinational data company Equinix won approval to demolish warehouses in Banbury Avenue and replace them with a five-storey data facility.

But in order for the project to go ahead, details of the construction have to be approved by SBC.

Details of where construction workers will park and how they will get onto the site were approved on August 13.

New pool for riverside country house refused (RBWM app 23/02078/FULL)

The current garden and grounds at West Court, Fishery Road, Maidenhead. (Image: Savills / Knight Frank)

The planning department at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) has rejected plans for a new swimming pool and changes to a historic riverside house in Maidenhead.

West Court is a Grade II listed house in the exclusive Fishery Road along the River Thames.

The refused plan for changes to the garden and grounds at West Court, Fishery Road, Maidenhead. (Image: Cool Gardens Landscape Associates)

An applicant was seeking to move the swimming pool to the side of the house, construct two new outbuildings, a pergola with outdoor kitchen and new decking.

However, the project was rejected on August 20, with a planning officer judging that it would have an unacceptable impact on the listed building and raised fears about the impact on the River Thames.

Demolition and replacement of village cottages refused (RBWM 23/01549/FULL)

The refused street scene for a plan to demolish one building containing two houses and replace it with four detached houses in Holyport. (Image: St Edwards Design & Planning)

A plan to demolish two semi-detached cottages contained within one building in Holyport has been refused. 

A developer had applied to demolish the two three-bed homes and replace them with two four-bed and two two-bed detached houses.

The existing Bartletts Cottages, containing two homes in one building in Moneyrow Green, Holyport. (Image: St Edwards Design & Planning)

However, the project was refused by RBWM's planning department on August 19.

A planning officer ruled that the developer had failed to provide details that wildlife would be protected and adequate surface water drainage.