MAJOR plans for 29 flats being refused is just one of the many planning decisions or applications submitted to 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.

Part demolition and reconstruction of existing rear boundary wall, relocation, and replacement of existing car park barrier and bollards, alterations to the existing access ramp and associated works at Mercure Castle Hotel, 18 High Street, Windsor (21/01800/FULL).

Slough Observer: Mercure Castle Hotel, 18 High Street, Windsor (21/01800/FULL)Mercure Castle Hotel, 18 High Street, Windsor (21/01800/FULL)

Planning officers gave the go-ahead for the owners of the grade II listed hotel to create an “attractive” entrance and improve access arrangements to the hotel for their guests as well as adding a replacement car barrier to give additional car parking security.

The proposal seeks to remove a small part of a wall at the rear of the hotel and rebuilt it with a new pillar in a new location which will facilitate a more “defined” and access route for guests to improve visitor experience.

The new arrangements will allow for an improved and upgraded access control system which will increase the car park security.

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This will involve removing three existing parking bays and the existing concrete raised platform.4

A 29 flat scheme in Chalve refused at 31-41 Beckwell Road, Slough (P/16742/002).

Developers wanted to demolish the existing building and build two apartment blocks compromising 16 one-beds and 13-bedrooms.

There would be 42 car spaces provided in the basement, including five intended for disabled use, along with 22 Sheffield cycle stands that would accommodate up to 44 bicycles.

The western block would comprise a part-three, part-four storey building with the top floor set towards the Tuns Lane frontage and set in from the floors below it around most of the roofline.

Slough Observer: 31-41 Beckwell Road, Slough (P/16742/002).31-41 Beckwell Road, Slough (P/16742/002).

The eastern building would be three storeys high and would be located in the central and eastern part of the site.

But planning officers believe the apartment blocks would result in a “significant loss of privacy” to neighbours, the basement parking would not provide “convenient access and egress” for vehicle usage, and the plans have not shown it will not severely constrain or sterilise the land to the north.

Concerns over surface water drainage also prompted officers to recommend councillors on the planning committee, who will convene on Wednesday, September 15, to refuse the application.

Councillors blocked the scheme at a planning committee on Wednesday, September 15.

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Change of use from offices into new flats at Station Court, High Road, Cookham, Maidenhead (21/02280/CLASSO).

Royal Borough planning officers granted developers prior approval to transform offices, which is currently still in use, into four flats. No further details were released.

However, both Cookham ward councillor Mandy Brar (Lib Dem) and the parish council wanted the scheme to be refused as the plan contains “no green infrastructure” and green space contrary to the borough’s design guide.

Cllr Brar called the application in for it to be determined by the planning panel. She wrote: “I would like to object to the above proposal change of use because the proposal contains no green infrastructure contrary to policy NPPF 194 of the Borough Local Plan.

“Also contrary to policy 6.3 of the Borough-wide design guide, has no green space or gardens contrary to VDS G 6.8 and 6.21 and has no screening contrary to G6.20, no landscaping contrary to G6.7.”