New flats have been planned in Marlow, while a man has been refused permission for a new house in High Wycombe.
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 flats above 44 to 48 High Street, Marlow (24/07411/FUL)
Sorbon Estates has submitted its latest plans to develop the High Street, with a new application for five new flats
The company has applied for permission to convert the first floor above the row shops to make it suitable for the new homes.
It also wants to build a new second floor above men’s outfitters Charles Tyrwhitt at number 44 and Australian leatherwear company R.M.Williams at number 46, which recently replaced the HSBC bank.
Pizza Express is located at number 48, to the rear of which will be first-floor rear extensions, providing two of the apartments.
Sorbon has also requested permission to remove the existing steel staircases providing access to the first-floor deck level and to change the use of the first floor of number 44 to create two of the flats.
Proposals also include the ‘formation of an undercroft’ at ground level for bin storage, with space for bikes, as well as ‘improvements to the external finish’ of the back of number 44.
New home rejected at 58 Hatters Lane, High Wycombe (24/05435/FUL)
Planners have refused Mr Mohammad Ali permission to knock down the existing bungalow and replace it with a new four-bedroom detached property.
The applicant said the new house would be a ‘family home’ and planned a dropped kerb at the front to provide a parking area.
But planners told him this week they were refusing his plans due to the potential presence of bats.
In a decision notice, they wrote: “No preliminary roost assessment has been submitted and without this information, the local planning authority cannot be assured that this proposal will not harm a protected species.”
Extension for aesthetics clinic, 5 Elms Road, Chalfont St Peter (PL/24/2487/FA)
The council had granted Ms Emma Hughes permission for a first-floor side extension above the existing garage at her property ‘Pendragon’
The applicant can also convert the garage to be used as an aesthetics clinic, planners told her this week.
Ms Hughes explained she only saw around three to four clients per week and only had one client at a time, generally in the afternoon before 5pm, and she had onsite parking on her drive.
She said: “I have been operating these services from a room in my house for four years now already so there will be no change to the current t situation except using a different room. Most of the conversion will be a gym for my family’s use.”
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