A Bourne End showroom and physio centre is to become new flats, Buckinghamshire Council has said.

Planning officers approved a plan to change the use of Wyebridge House on Cores End Road to create five apartments.

The site is currently home to kitchen firm, Redline Interiors, as well as a physiotherapy and personal training centre.

The approved plans to overhaul the site include retaining an existing flat, creating a roof terrace to the rear and making minor external alterations.

Applicant T Jones & Son said there would be five parking spaces for the flats to ‘enable sufficient manoeuvring space’ and ‘allow for pedestrian access for residents’.

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Original plans for the site stated that there would be four one-bedroom flats and one two-bedroom duplex apartment.

The applicant said in a design statement that ‘no harm’ would arise from the flats and noted that Buckinghamshire Council faces a ‘chronic housing land supply shortage’.

The statement added: “It will not cause any adverse effect on neighbouring amenity, daylight and sunlight are of an adequate level for habitable living.”

However, others disagreed that the new flats would not cause harm, including Wooburn & Bourne End Parish Council, which ‘strongly objected’ to the plans.

It said the new housing would be a ‘clear overdevelopment of the site’ and that it had ‘concerns over the proposed parking arrangements exiting on to Cores End Road’.

Meanwhile, next-door neighbour Nicholas Norris claimed that a proposed bathroom window at the site would lead to an ‘invasion of privacy’.

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