A new children’s care home is set to open in a house in Bucks after plans for the site have been given permission.

This is just one of the many applications considered by Buckinghamshire Council during the past seven days.

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

New children’s care home, Denham Lane, Chalfont St Peter (PL/24/0736/FA)

Planners have given Keys Child Care Ltd permission change the use of the existing large detached house to a care home.

The applicant said that four children aged between 11 and 17 will live at the property, which will be run 24/7 by carers and staff who will not live at the site.

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Each young person will have their own bedroom fitted with locks and access to shared living facilities.

Only minor, internal changes would be required to fit out the property for its new use, including infilling part of a wall on the ground floor.

A separate shower room is also proposed within the existing sitting room for staff, as well as minor internal alterations on the first floor, none of which require planning permission.

Plans state: “The young people residing in the proposed care home have been taken into care because they are unable to live with their natural parents and are not old enough to live independently.”

New homes to replace The White House, Lower Road, Gerrards Cross (PL/24/1061/FA)

Luxury homebuilder Rosewood has asked the council for permission to demolish the existing 1960s-style property.

The applicant wants to use the land to build two pairs of semi-detached houses and a further two detached properties.

A plan for the six new homes state that the semi-detached properties will be ‘Edwardian style’ with a design influenced by the ‘late Arts and Crafts Metroland dwellings that were constructed after the development of the railway’.

It adds: “The two detached dwellings to the rear, are more modest dwellings with lowered eaves, providing an appropriate design solution adjacent to the Gerrards Cross Conservation Area.”

New solar panels at The Beacon School, 15 Amersham Road, Chesham Bois (PL/24/0814/FA)

Planning officers have given the independent prep day school and nursery for boys aged 3-13 permission to fix solar panels to the roofs of its sports hall and pre-prep buildings.

The application claims the panels will ‘provide clean energy to be used across the site’ and should last for 25 years.

Plans state: “Purpose of the installation is reducing pressure on the electricity network and reduce the carbon emissions from the site associated with consumption of grid connected electricity.”

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