A bungalow on a Slough street can be converted into a children’s care home after a decision by the government’s planning inspectorate.

Mr Daniel Clarke appealed to the government’s planning inspectorate after Slough Borough Council failed decide whether it should be allowed to go ahead.

The Inspector, G Ellis, said the change ‘would not be harmful to the character of the area or the amenities of the neighbours’.

Mr Clarke applied to Slough Borough Council for planning permission to change the use of the bungalow on April 16 this year.

In his application Mr Clarke said he’d been advised by planning officers before submitting his application that it would be ‘looked on favourably’.

But the council failed to make a decision within the eight week timeframe, and Mr Clarke appealed to the planning inspectorate to make a decision on June 23.

Planning officers said the delay was because they were still waiting for responses to the application from different council departments.

Slough Borough Council did not object to the plans once the appeal began, and the inspector granted planning permission on Monday, October 14.

But the inspector did not agree to make Slough Borough Council pay Mr Clarke for the costs of making an appeal. Costs are awarded where one party has ‘behaved unreasonably’ causing unnecessary expense to the other.

They said that although the delay was ‘frustrating’ there was no evidence that the council was not progressing the application, and had given a proper explanation.