A “FINANCIALLY challenged” Windsor bed and breakfast wants to extend to add more guest rooms.
This is just one of the many applications submitted to the local authorities in Slough, Windsor, and Maidenhead in the past seven days.
To view more details for each application, go to the respective council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
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Avtar Cheema’s, who recently lost her seat as a Labour councillor, husband submitted a retrospective planning application to keep the rear verandah after a planning enforcement notice was issued.
Planning officers believed the length of the extension is “unacceptable” and provides a “cramped form of development” that impacts the area’s character and a small level of garden space.
The Cheema’s neighbour, who was anonymised, submitted an objection to the plan, believing the movement of the structure and its roof in moderate to high winds is a “serious safety concern”.
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The verandah overlaps into their property and the resident supplied pictures of rainwater from the structure draining into their garden, causing flooding.
Mr Cheema has now withdrawn the application with no reason given in the planning portal.
A Windsor B&B wants to extend at 17 Crimp Hill, Old Windsor, Windsor (22/01067/FULL).
The applicant has amended its scheme to build a two-storey rear extension at the Union Inn to provide six guestrooms after previous plans were recommended for refusal.
It was argued the benefits of the extension that would save a “financially challenged small business” outweighs the minimal impact of the greenbelt.
The extension has been re-designed and reduced in order to decrease its impact on the greenbelt and reduce its overlooking of neighbours. It also leaves space to increase the 17 car parking spaces by one, which would lessen the impact of on-street car parking.
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In its conclusion, it wrote: “The current proposal serves to save a culturally significant small business, significantly reduce the property’s carbon footprint, create a substantial gain in net biodiversity, improve the aesthetic and privacy for both sets of neighbours, reduce demand for street parking on Crimp Hill, and ensure this already developed upon brownfield site is more efficiently utilised to serve the greenbelt and the borough’s key strategic goals.”
Planning officers are yet to decide on the scheme.
Developers finally have office conversion approved at Forward Building, 44-46, Windsor Road, Slough (P/00669/024).
Planning officers have green-lighted plans for a developer to transform a former office block into three studio flats in the town centre.
The three-storey building was used as primary office space on the first and second floors and the ground floor was used for financial services. The last lease agreement ended December 2020 and the site is currently vacant.
The proposals will ensure the retention of an active frontage and office block within the town centre fronting Windsor Road.
A previous scheme was refused last year due to inaccurate information, but the developer corrected those mistakes and they have now been granted planning permission.
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