THE 230-homes plan at the old Heatherwood Hospital site in Ascot was given the final sign-off by planning bosses.
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.
Plans submitted for a rear extension to build new flats at 254 High Street, Langley, Slough (P/00372/021).
A developer wants to extend their current property to provide two studio, two one-bed, and two two-bedroom apartments with amenities.
The double-storey extension will also provide one shop on the ground floor. It also proposes secure bicycle storage, car parking, and bin spaces.
The windows have been located to minimise any overlooking into neighbouring properties and will be well insulated for noise restriction.
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“The proposed development would achieve high standards of design to create attractive and safe residential areas,” the planning statement reads.
A tattoo studio wants to become a pizza takeaway at 108 Cookham Road, Maidenhead (22/01749/FULL).
Studio 108 could be converted into a hot food takeaway, which is proposing to serve pizza to hungry customers.
Developers are proposing to open the pizza shop for 12 hours, seven days a week. Four full-time staff could be employed if approved.
The shop will be a pizza takeaway and will have a gas-fired pizza oven located on the right side of the ground floor. This application is for the change of use/external flue run. The oven will have an overhead extraction system with built-in filtration.
Redevelopment of the old Heatherwood Hospital was given final sign-off at London Road, Ascot (21/02792/REM).
The head of planning at the council gave the final sign-off for developer Taylor Wimpey to redevelop the former hospital into 230 homes.
Councillors sitting on the Windsor and Ascot development management panel approved the plans back in March but were subject to conditions such as completing and securing a contribution to the council’s carbon offset fund.
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The housing mix consists of 14 one-beds, 69 two-beds, and 40 three-bedroom flats – which range from three to five-storeys – and three two-beds, 88 three-beds, and 16 four-bedroom homes.
The site has parking provision of 368 spaces, 45 of which will have electric vehicle charging points, 432 cycle spaces, and incorporates new landscaping, grassed patches, and public open spaces.
It is ‘not viable’ for affordable homes to be built upon the site. However, a S106 legal obligation of the 2017 Hybrid Permission requires the NHS Trust to make about a £6 million off-site affordable housing contribution following the sale of the existing hospital site.
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