IT HAS been a quiet week for Bucks in terms of planning but that hasn’t stopped developers from submitting schemes.
It has been mainly flatted developments that have been put forward this week, and the Local Democracy Reporting Service has rounded up the biggest ones.
To view more details for each application, go to the council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
Outline plans to build 14 apartments have been withdrawn following objections at Cressex Road, High Wycombe (22/07155/OUT).
The applicant, known as ‘Mr M Q Shiraz,’ wanted to build 12 one-beds and two two-bedroom flats over three-storeys on land at the rear of 136 to 142.
Mr Shiraz’s family owns 140 and 138 and has purchased over time the rear gardens of 136 and 144 and combined them as a building plot.
The plans propose a disabled-designed interior layout and fitting provisions on the ground floor with a passenger lift and common stairway to the upper floors. Air source heating, electric vehicle charge points, and cycle storage are also provided.
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But residents objected to the plans and raised concerns over parking pressure on the street and the apartment block overlooking their properties.
One homeowner wrote: “There will be overlooking to all the neighbouring properties, due to the height of the proposed block of flats, and beyond of their private amenity space - ie their gardens.
“It would take some considerable time for the tree to grow to the indicative height in the plans. It is out of keeping for this area of Cressex Road, there is no three-storey residential development here.”
A developer seeks to transform an office block into flats at 66-68 Chapel Street, Marlow (23/05424/PNPCR).
BMR London Ltd has put forward a scheme to convert a rectangular-shaped three-storey office block into 14 self-contained apartments.
The flats are proposed to be a mixture of studios and a one-bedroom accommodation. All units meet nationally described space standards, the planning statement reads.
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Parking will be provided through the retention of the 11 existing spaces found at the rear car park.
Cycle parking for 14 cycles is located in a bike store to the rear of the site. Domestic, recycling and paper waste storage provision is located at the northern end of the site under the undercroft.
Council requires more details on 20 flats plan at 9-16 Oxford Street, High Wycombe (22/08390/PNPCR).
The second floor of the former Octagon Parade, which housed Pure nightclub, could be turned into a residential.
Developer Morphouse Construction Ltd submitted the plans under prior approval, which would effectively bypass the planning process to speed up development if the council did not object.
But planning officers required more details from Morphouse for the development to go ahead.
They needed a proposed scheme on how the development would be protected from transportation noise from A40, Arch Way, Oxford Street, the roundabout junction abutting these roads, and the Queens Street service yard.
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