Datchet sees major plans for 80 homes submitted

This is just one of the many applications submitted to 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.

A developer has withdrawn plans to use the rear of a former strip club for storage and distribution at Colnbrook Bypass, Colnbrook, Slough (P/10776/004).

Tantric Blue in Colnbrook (Image: Google Maps)

Tantric Blue, which provided adult entertainment until its 2019 closure, could have been used as a trucker stop if the plans were approved.

But the developer withdrew the scheme without an explanation.

The plans included an extension of existing hardstanding to provide parking for 17 heavy goods vehicles for the site to be used as a depot. The yard would have operated 24 hours a day with 20 staff.

In 2020, the council gave permission to convert the former strip club into a restaurant and hot food takeout. Last year, the venue was listed on the property website Zoopla with an asking price of £5.5m.

Eighty homes could be added on land to the rear of 45 to 63 London Road, Datchet (22/02737/FULL).

Layout of the 80 homes site (Image: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead)

Developer Inland Homes have submitted a scheme to develop on former green belt land. Because it is in the adopted borough local plan (AL39), policies that protect the green belt from development no longer apply.

Eighty homes, 32 of which are affordable, are proposed to be built. The housing mix includes 18 flats that are one and two-bedrooms, which could be three-storeys in height, and 62 homes that are two, three, four, and five-bedrooms, which could be two-storeys in height.

Two vehicular access points are proposed for the development: from Riding Court Road on the western side of the site; and from London Road on the south-eastern side of the site.

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The scheme proposes landscaping across the site, a children’s play area, public open space, and each home will have a private garden.

It also offers 174 car parking spaces in total and 21 cycle spaces for the apartments, four Sheffield stands for public use, and each home as cycle storage.

Planning officers are yet to decide on the application but given the sheer number of homes proposed, it will most likely be determined by councillors sitting on the Windsor and Ascot development management panel.

Slough heat and power station have plans approved at 8 Edinburgh Avenue, Slough (P/20018/000).

Planning officers gave the station planning approval to build an electric house to contain the switchgear that provides the power supply to the cooling water pumps and chemical dosing system.

It also wanted to replace its acid tank that will be used for chemical dosing of the cooling water to ensure the required hydrogen is maintained.

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The development includes the reuse and replacement of two underground duct connections from the Site for the power supply and control cabling which link into underground infrastructure associated with the Multifuel plant, which is under construction, to the south of Edinburgh Avenue.

The underground power and control cables link from the proposed E-House and travel south west for approximately 80m at a depth of several metres to connect with Slough Multifuel.