Slough plan to replace house with teaching blocks

The Westgate School has applied to knock down a house and build a teaching block in its place.

Meanwhile, a developer elsewhere in Slough wants to add a home to an existing semi-detached house.

You can view the applications featured by typing the reference in brackets into the respective council’s planning portal.

Plan to replace house with new school buildings (Slough app P/20419/001)

Elevations for planned new buildings for Westgate School in Slough. Credit Primrose Projects

The Westgate School in Cippenham Lane has applied to demolish a home and replace it with new classrooms and buildings.

The existing house was previously occupied by a school caretaker.

Now The Westgate wants to demolish it and replace it with six classrooms, a multipurpose hall and an office.

These buildings would be located opposite The Long Barn pub and The Great Barn, which are both Grade II listed.

Plan for a new end-of-terrace home (Slough app P/11385/003)

A plan for a new three bed home at Lydford Avenue, Slough. Credit: Slough planning application P/11385/003

A landowner has applied to build a new end-of-terrace home in Lydford Avenue in the Manor Park area.

The new three-bed house would be attached to an existing semi-detached pair of houses at the junction with St Elmo Crescent.

Lydford Avenue in Slough, where a landowner wants to build a new end of terraced house. Credit: Google Maps

The proposed home would have identical facilities to the house it would be attached to, with a separate kitchen, living room and toilet downstairs, and the bedrooms upstairs.

Outside, both the existing and the new house would have two car parking spaces, a garden and rear-mounted solar panels.

Plan to make loft space habitable refused (RBWM app 23/02389/FULL)

The existing three-bed house in Aysgarth Park, Maidenhead. Credit: artists impression

Here, a homeowner had their plan to make loft space habitable at their house in Aysgarth Park, Maidenhead.

The homeowner had won approval to build extensions to add first floor extensions to the house to create space to provide two three-bedroom homes in August 2023 (plan reference 22/02854/FULL).

The approved design to create two three-bed homes in Asygarth Park, Maidenhead by adding extensions to the existing house. Credit: artists impression

The owners wanted to turn the loft space of both homes into habitable accommodation.

However, the plan was refused by the Royal Borough planning department as it would have added excessive bulk to the existing building.

Home demolition plan put on hold (RBWM app 21/00557/FULL)

The withdrawn plan for two new three-bed homes in Florence Avenue, Maidenhead. Credit: A Architecture and Development

A plan to replace a house with two new three-bedroom homes has been put on hold in Maidenhead.

The owner of a house in Florence Avenue had applied to demolish it to make way for two new detached homes with each having two car parking spaces and a garden.

However, the plan was withdrawn by the applicant on Monday, February 12.