A plan to replace garages and commercial space with homes in Slough has been approved.

The project involves demolishing the existing buildings at a site in Chalvey and building four homes in their place.

Elsewhere in Slough, a plan to convert a family house into a home of multiple occupation (HMO) has been refused.

In the Royal Borough, a project to replace a house with nine luxury apartments is moving ahead, and an owner has had their hopes to replace a house dashed.

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

Replacement of garages with terraced homes approved (Slough app P/08488/008)

Slough Observer: The approved elevations for one two-bed and three three-bed homes in Chalvey Road East, Slough. Credit: Danks Badnell Architects

A project to replace garages and commercial space with homes in Chalvey Road East has been approved.

The plans were substantially revised from the original submission in November 2020.

Slough Observer: An initial CGI for the plan to replace garages and other buildings in Chalvey Road East, Slough with homes. Credit: Danks Badnell Architects

The developer initially applied to build five one-bedroom and four two-bedroom flats.

However, the project was scaled back with approval being granted for one two-bed and three three-bed homes getting the go-ahead on February 23.

Conversion of house into large HMO refused (Slough app P/05193/005)

Slough Observer: A plan has been refused to convert 17 Petersfield Avenue, Slough into a seven bed home of multiple occupation (HMO). Credit: Google Maps

A landlord’s plan to convert a five-bedroom terraced home into a seven-person HMO has been refused.

Last September, the owner’s application to convert the house in Petersfield Avenue into a large HMO through permitted development was refused by the council’s planning department.

The owner therefore submitted a full application, which would have created two bedrooms at ground and roof level, and three bedrooms on the first floor.

However, the planning department rejected the project, judging it to be a “cramped and overly-intensive use” of the terraced house.

Progress made on nine apartments project near golf course (RBWM app 24/00106/CONDIT)

Slough Observer: Hill House, Cross Road, Sunningdale. Credit: Google Maps

Progress is being made on a project to build nine luxury apartments next to Sunningdale Heath Golf Club.

The project involves demolishing Hill House in Cross Road, Sunningdale which is itself a grand but vacant home, and replacing it with six three-bedroom and three two-bedroom apartments.

Slough Observer: A revised plan for the nine apartments at Hill House, Cross Road, Sunningdale, which itself was approved in October 2023. Credit Kebbell

The latest is that developers Kebbell have had a bat survey approved by the council, which was a condition of the project being approved.

The driveway to Hill House was last seen open in 2019.

Replacement home project refused (RBWM app 23/02418/FULL)

Slough Observer: A bungalow in Welleys Road, Wraysbury. A plan to demolish and replace it has been rejected. Credit: Google Maps

The owner of a bungalow in the village of Wraysbury has had their plan to replace it with a two-storey home rejected.

The new home would have had six bedrooms and substantial living quarters.

But the project was rejected by the Royal Borough’s planning department because it was judged to be of ‘poor design’ and the developers failed to demonstrate  how the development would not increase flood risk