A telecoms mast and a new office building are in this week’s roundup of planning applications and decisions at Slough Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

You can view each one by going to the council’s planning website and searching for the application number provided.

Slough: Bath Road telecoms mast (X/00440/015)

Slough Borough Council has said it ‘can not determine’ whether a replacement for a temporary phone mast put up behind people’s homes can be built on Bath Road.

A temporary emergency services telecoms mast was put up in a shopping estate loading bay directly behind Ivy Crescent in Cippenham in April. The tower is a TETRA mast which is used to facilitate emergency service communications.

Residents campaigned to have it removed – saying they were plagued with noise and fumes from the diesel generator that powered it.

Mast owner Airwave Solutions submitted new plans for permanent equipment at 234 Bath Road in October. They asked whether the council had to confirm whether it had to determine if ‘prior approval’ for the mast was granted under planning law.

But council planning officers have said the mast’ does not fall within the category of development requiring the Local Planning Authority to determine whether the prior approval will be required’.

They said that meant the council was ‘not able to make such a determination’ and therefore prior approval was refused, on Wednesday November 29.

Slough: trees (TPO/2024/9)

Two protected trees in Salt Hill can be felled, council tree officers have ruled.

A2 Dominion Housing asked for permission to fell a sycamore and a horse chestnut on an areas of grass on Harris Gardens.

They said the sycamore should be felled as it is twin stemmed, while the horse chestnut was in decline. Council tree officers agreed on Tuesday, November 26 that both should be felled.

RBWM: new office building (23/02716/FULL)

A new seven storey office building can be built on the new King Street development in Maidenhead, council planning officers have ruled.

Development firm Ryger Maidenhead wanted permission for the building on Kings Street, Queens Street and Broadway.

Planning officers granted approval on Tuesday, November 26. They said the development would be ‘of excellent design quality and meet the requirements for a tall building in this location’.