A new nursery in Gerrards Cross and new housing in Beaconsfield have been given the thumbs up by planning officers.

These are just some 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 nursery at Shire House, West Common, Gerrards Cross (PL/24/1699/SA)

Plans to transform a two-storey office building into a children’s day nursery have been approved by the council.

Baro Capital, run by Harry Maynard, has been granted permission to change the use of Shire House, which was built in 1991 and is currently occupied by a software firm.

The applicant’s plans read: “The nursery will take a traditional format with members of staff providing care and education for young children, during ‘typical’ day-time hours.”

Shire House, which overlooks West Common, underwent a significant refurbishment in 2019 and is already fully fitted, cabled and ready for immediate occupation.

Baro’s permission is merely to change the use of the building and the company would need to make separate planning applications to carry out any internal or external structural work required by the new nursery.

New homes, 151 Amersham Road, Beaconsfield, (PL/24/1059/FA)

A plan to build four terraced houses, each with four bedrooms and its own garden, has been approved.

The new two and a half storey homes will include bin and cycle stores and a forecourt of 10 parking spaces.

Applicant Surfbuild said it would demolish the existing property at 151, ‘Woodside’, a detached 1950s-bulilt chalet bungalow.

Its plans state that each of the new homes will contain two to three additional rooms and that the amount of space occupied by buildings on the plot will increase by 400 per cent.

Plans state: “The resultant design is considered a fully supportable form of development fully complimentary to the local built form context.”

New padel tennis courts at Hazlemere Tennis Club (24/05486/FUL)

Planners have approved the club’s plans to build the two new outdoor synthetic turf floodlit courts on an area of grass next to the bowling green.

The new sports facilities will leave the club’s five existing outdoor clay doubles tennis courts unchanged.

However, a northern part of the bowling green and the adjacent path will be converted in order to provide the new courts.

Players using the new courts will continue to have access to the club’s 39 parking spaces, as well as the 119 bays at the recreation ground.

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