High Wycombe could see new driving test centre set up

This is just one of the applications submitted to Buckinghamshire Council in the past seven days.

To view more details for each application, go to the council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.

A home could be changed into a children’s home at Revola, Clay Lane, Booker, Marlow (22/07904/FUL).

Beacon Residential Homes want to change the use of the six-bedroom property to accommodate and care for vulnerable children, aged 8 to 18, 24 hours a day.

The home will be used as a five-bed children’s home with a staff annex attached to the main property if planning officers approve the scheme.

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The proposed change of use does not change the occupancy of the property’s current use as a six-bed home, where there could be over 10 people living in it.

A temporary vehicle testing centre could be set up at Frederick Place, Loudwater (22/07902/FUL).

Office building Ashton Court in Kingsmead Business Park could become a car testing facility for a period of three years.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said it needs additional sites within the area to reduce the backlog caused by the pandemic.

It is proposed that a total of two examiners will operate from the site with a maximum of three examiners (if required) based on site on any given testing day.

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A total of four car parking spaces would be allocated for use by examiners from existing provision within the site. On average 14 candidates will utilise the testing facilities per day.

The proposed operational hours would be 7:30 to 16:30 Monday to Friday with tests lasting approximately 40 to 50 minutes.

A 5G mast won’t be erected at junction of Dropmore Road and Dorney Wood Road, Burnham (PL/22/3303/RM).

Telecommunications company CK Hutchinson Networks (UK) Ltd wanted to erect a 15m monopole with cabinets at the site.

This is part of the mass 5G rollout across the country in order to improve WIFI and telephone signals as part of the Levelling Up agenda.

Hutchinson was asking for prior approval, which would effectively bypass the planning process to speed up development if the council didn’t’ object.

The height of the mast concerned officers as it would be taller than the nearby homes, trees, and lampposts. This would be ‘visually intrusive’ to the ‘sensitive’ rural location and ‘significantly’ intrude on the skyline.