Town centre office conversions are in this week’s roundup of planning applications and decisions at Slough Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

You can view each one by going to the council’s planning website and searching for the application number provided.

Slough: Mackenzie Street (F/00042/008)

Proposals to convert centre offices and shop into flats have been refused by Slough Borough Council.

Plans to convert 3-5 Mackenzie Street into two, two-bed flats were submitted to Slough Borough Council on July 11.

But council planning officers rejected the plans. They said the applicant hadn’t shown the occupants would get adequate noise protection, natural light, space, bin provision or cycle parking.

Slough: front porch extension (P/20072/003)

A homeowner will have to alter an extension to their front porch after Slough Borough Council refused to grant retrospective planning permission.

Owners of the house on Prestwood in Wexham sought planning permission for the extension – which they had already built – on June 11.

But council planning officers say the extension was too large, making it ‘dominating and overpowering’.

Council officers say that following discussions with the applicant the design for the scale and bulk of the porch was amended.

Slough: Farnham Lane (P/20521/000)

A new home can be built behind 139 Farnham Lane in Britwell, Slough Borough Council has agreed.

Plans to build the three bedroom ‘chalet’ style bungalow were submitted to the council on May 17.

A planning statement from Lanesborough Homes said the plans mirrored an already-built home behind 143 Farnham Lane nearby. Council planning officers gave their approval on Thursday August 22.

RBWM: Trinity Yard (24/01575/CLASSG)

Rooms above a furniture shop in Windsor can be converted into flats, council planning officers have confirmed.

Under plans submitted to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, one bed flat and a two bed flat will be built above Urban Suite in Trinty Yard on St Leonard’s Road.

Some residents wrote to the council with concerns that, taken together with other recent applications, the plans would make the area overdeveloped.

But council planning officers said they had to assess the plans on their own merits, and that they were acceptable under ‘permitted development’ rights, which facilitate conversions from commercial premises into homes.

RBWM: telephone mast (24/01556/TLDTT)

Plans to install a new telecoms mast on Ascot High Street have been refused – despite telecoms companies insisting that it is ‘essential’ to maintaining phone signal in the area.

Mobile Broadband Network Limited applied for permission to install the mast and five equipment cabinets by the entrance to Car Park Six. It said the new mast is needed to maintain coverage for EE and 3 customers after another one nearby is removed.

But planning officers from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said the 20 metre mast would be too large for the proposed new site.