An update on a huge town centre development in Bracknell is among the latest planning applications submitted to Bracknell Forest Council in the past week.

Three plans from the past week listed below:

Bracknell Beeches flats one step closer to construction

Construction work on the Bracknell Beeches housing development in Bracknell town centre has taken one step closer to beginning.

Developers Weston Homes has submitted a “biodiversity enhancement strategy” document—to show how it would protect and improve animal habitats—to Bracknell Forest Council.

The document outlines plans to keep or supply new plants on the site, as well as bird boxes, “hedgehog highways” and “sensitive lighting” for bats.

Providing the document was a condition on their being allowed to build the flats. When completed, Bracknell Beeches will include 349 new homes on Old Bracknell Lane, in seven new buildings ranging between four and 16 storeys high.

Bracknell Forest. Planning reference number: 23/00066/COND

Four new houses in Winkfield

Apollo Estates Limited wants to build four houses, with three bedrooms each, on a former builder’s yard on Mount Apollo, Mounts Hill, in Winkfield.

The application also seeks permission to change the use of the land from agricultural to residential.

Bracknell Forest. Planning reference number: 23/00247/FUL

Replace thatched roof with concrete tiles

The owner of a house with a thatched roof on Beech Lane, Earley, has applied for a certificate of lawfulness to replace it with concrete tiles.

In a letter on his behalf, town planners Bell Cornell note that the house is not a listed building, and argue that it is in much need of repair.

Wokingham Borough. Planning reference number: 23102