Changes coming to historic Slough pub near Heathrow

The Ostrich Inn at Colnbrook is a historic pub that is set to get more covered space now an extension project has been approved.

In Slough itself, a landowner has won approval to build a bungalow and, over in the Royal Borough, separate housing plans have been approved and rejected.

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

Extension for Ostrich Inn approved (P/12258/013 and P/12258/012)

The Ostrich Inn, Colnbrook High Street. Credit: Fuller Long

The Ostrich Inn, a pub in Colnbrook, which has a history stretching back to 1106, is set to be extended.

Its owners applied to construct a single-storey rear extension to create a conference room, and convert the first-floor breakfast and bar rooms into an ensuite bedroom.

The approved plan to convert a breakfast and bar room at the Ostrich pub in Colnbrook into an ensuite double bedroom. Credit: Fuller Long

The project was approved by Slough’s planning department on March 12.

While the conversion of the first-floor room into a bedroom will result in the loss of six tables with four seats each, the conference room created in the extension will come with two tables with eight seats each.

New bungalow approved (Slough app P/08222/003)

An approved plan to build a bungalow in Snape Spur, Slough. Credit: Detailed Planning

A landowner has won approval to build a new bungalow for future occupants in Slough.

The bungalow can built between two existing homes in Snape Spur, immediately south of the Granville Avenue allotments.

Land between two homes in Snape Spur, Slough, where a new bungalow can be built. Credit: Google Maps

The new home will come with two double-bedrooms, a bathroom and an open plan kitchen, living and dining room.

The project was approved Slough’s planning department on March 11.

Project to build homes on gardens refused (RBWM app 22/03191/FULL)

Oakley Gardens in Maidenhead, the rear of houses in Windsor Road, where a developer failed to get permission to build homes. Credit: Google Maps

A project to build two homes on long stretching gardens in Maidenhead has been rejected.

The homes would have been semi-detached, contained within a new building constructed to the rear of two existing houses in Windsor Road.

The project was refused by Adrien Waite, the Royal Borough’s head of planning, who judged that it would result in a cramped development, with the applicant failing to demonstrate how biodiversity net gain would be achieved.

The project would have provided two three-bed homes for potential occupants.

Outline plan to replace bungalow in village approved (RBWM app 23/02726/OUT)

The bungalow at the junction of Gilchrist Way and Jubilee Road in Littlewick Green. Credit: Google Maps

An outline plan to replace a bungalow with a larger home in the village of Littlewick Green has been approved.

The existing house is situated at the junction of Gilchrist Way and Jubilee Road in the village.

A plan that was approved on outline for a replacement home in Littlewick Green. Credit: Pike Smith Kemp

The Royal Borough’s planning department has approved a project to replace it, with the scale and access for the planned new home being acceptable.

Despite the project only being approved on outline, floorplans for the proposed home show it coming with four bedrooms, with two of these located in the roof.