08/05/2024
A garden in Grays Road is set to be segmented and built on. Street photo via Google.
There is also a plan to cut a garden up and develop a home on part of it.
Below are the latest planning applications of note in Slough. See all proposals by entering their reference numbers into Slough Borough Council's online planning portal at www.sbcplanning.co.uk/plansearch.php
Approved: An application is in to build a detached three-bedroom dwelling in the land rear of 38 Grays Road, Slough.
The rear garden of number 38 has an area of 207sqm.
This large garden has been ‘neglected over many years’ and is ‘too large for the occupant’s to maintain.
It is therefore proposed to split it, making 159sqm for the new development, with 48sqm remaining as the garden for number 38.
The proposed dwelling sits between two residential dwellings. The proposal maintains 'good spacing' between the neighbouring buildings and the scale of the development is directly related to these. Its design matches the general style of many of the traditional properties in the area.
Slough Borough Council approved this under multiple conditions.
For one, no development can commence until details of the new means of access are submitted to and approved in writing, because of the effect on highways.
In addition, no part of the development can be occupied until a covered and lockable cycle parking store is provided for each dwelling.
Details of drainage, planting scheme and boundary treatments are also required.
P/20451/000
Approved: Rapha Healthcare Limited has been granted permission to turn a home in Herschel Park into a small specialist care home for up to five children with emotional and behavioural needs.
It will through OFSTED have ‘a stringent impact risk assessment to ensure it will integrate with the local community,’ said the applicant’s representatives, Rose Consulting Planning & Regeneration.
This assessment considers the home, the environment, the community, plus peers groups and assesses against each child as an individual prior to admission into the home.
The children, aged from 7 to 18 years, will live at the property long term, hopefully for many years. This is not a halfway house or emergency housing for children.
The children’s home seeks to replicate as closely as possible a normal family environment. This type of provision, which government policy is promoting, is to help children who often, through no fault of their own, have not had good parenting in their early years.
They would be looked after by a maximum four carers, two of whom will sleep /be awake overnight, working on a rota basis.
Under the requirements of OFSTED, such care homes must be run as closely as possible to a typical family household, with staff providing parental support many of the children have missed in their early years.
The proposal does not involve any alterations to the exterior or interior of the property.
The only physical requirements specified by OFSTED are security cameras, emergency lighting and locks on bedroom doors, all not material from a planning perspective.
P/14208/005
Pending: Another care home is planned in Upton Lea.
In this case, the plan is to change of use of the existing 4-5 bedroom detached bungalow and family home into a care home for 3-4 children, aged 11-17.
The proposed change of use will address a critical need for residential care facilities for children aged 11-17 in the local area," wrote the applicant, DNJ Care Ltd.
"The director of DNJ Care Ltd will engage with Slough's local authority social care team, a collaboration that has been deemed essential and beneficial.
"Slough has outlined a sufficiency plan aimed at establishing care homes for looked-after children in the borough. Our community outreach efforts, including liaising with the police, social care, and education sectors, ensure seamless integration and minimal disruption."
Overnight, a maximum of two adults will be present on the premises, one sleep-in and one awake. Parking is available on the driveway, accommodating two cars.
No external structural alterations will be made to the building.
"We believe our proposal will not surpass the impact of a typical family of five in terms of parking, refuse collection, and general use of community amenities," wrote the applicant.
P/11372/003