A COFFEE shop could replace an estate agent in Slough – this is just one of the many plans submitted or determined by Slough Borough Council or the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
To view more details for each application, go to the respective council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
Chiltern Hills could soon be transformed into a cake and coffee shop. 241, Farnham Road, Slough (P/08533/007).
Developers are hoping to refurbish the estate agents into a Karak Chaii, which is a fast growing brand offering Karak Chaii and urban desi style street food.
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It will offer fresh coffee, teas, all day breakfast, cake, and biscuits from all around the world.
The restaurant seeks to employ four full time staff and two part time staff.
If approved, it could operate seven days a week from 8am to 11.30pm.
In the design and access statement, it states: “The proposal will serve the large local community of which are residential and commercial with freshly brewed coffee and teas from around the world.
“The proposed coffee shop will help regenerate the current vacant building and help inject money back into the community by providing jobs to locals and providing healthy breakfast, snacks and fresh coffee and teas.”
Change of use of first floor from office to five flats at MSL House, 5 – 7 High Street, Sunninghill, Ascot (21/00907/CLASSO).
The Royal Borough received an application from developers who want to transform the first floor, which currently provides offices, of the two-storey building into five apartments.
The retail part of the building, which is on the ground-floor, will be retained.
Six parking spaces will be provided for the future residents, while nine additional parking spaces will be retained for the ground-floor shop.
A new cycle parking area is also proposed.
Outline plans to demolition existing commercial buildings for an eight-storey apartment block at the corner of Stoke Road and Stoke Gardens, Slough (P/04557/012).
Rai Solicitors, a sandwich shop, and a polish restaurant could be demolished as developers submit plans to Slough Borough Council to erect 29 new flats.
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The scheme will have a mix of five studio flats, eight one-beds, and 16 two-bedroom apartments – none of which are affordable homes.
The Mr Cod fish and chip shop next door and its one-bedroom flat upstairs will remain.
Amenity is provided in the form of gardens for the two ground floor flats and dedicated balconies for all but two of the apartments.
Apart from two disabled bays, no other car parking spaces are provided due to the site being in a ‘designated shopping area’ as the site is located near public transport links, shops, and the town centre.
Thirty cycle spaces proposed within a cycle store accessible from Stoke Road, equating to over one space per flat.
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