The latest on plans for a new coffee shop is in this week’s roundup of planning applications and decisions at Bracknell Forest Council.

You can view each one by going to the council’s planning website and searching for the application number provided.

New coffee shop (24/00144/FUL)

A new coffee shop in Jennett’s Park is a step closer to opening after overcoming noise concerns raised at Bracknell Forest Council.

Permission had already been granted to put up signs reading ‘Jay Corner coffee shop and bistro’ at 71a Sparrowhawk Way, next to Jennett’s Park Co-op in April. Now it has also granted permission for two external air conditioning units.

Council documents suggest environmental health and safety officers were concerned about the potential noise the air conditioning units would cause, as were Bracknell Town councillors.

But the applicants then submitted a noise assessment which environmental health officers were satisfied with, and the application was approved on Thursday June 13.

Care home (24/00324/FUL)

Changes to plans for a new care home at Amen Corner have been submitted to Bracknell Forest Council.

The plans to build a 68 bed care home on Cain Road along with 52 homes were approved in 2021. But now developers want to reduce the number of bedrooms in the care home to 62.

A planning statement submitted with the proposed changes says the proposed changes are only ‘minor amendments’.

It says: “The applicant is seeking to provide the same development, in the same manner, and in line with the description of the development.

“It has been rationalised and is more efficient and will comply with the operational requirements and more importantly the residents”.

Caravan site (23/00589/LDC)

The owners of a ‘park home’ estate in Warfield cannot consider their own recycling area as part of the site, Bracknell Forest planning officers had ruled.

Warfield Park asked for permission to carry on using its green recycling area as part of the caravan site. They said this is so that they can use income from pitch fees to pay for its maintenance.

Currently they’re not allowed to do this as – although they own it – it is not considered part of the licensed caravan site.

But council licensing officers ruled that the waste area is a ‘separate planning unit’ on the basis if evidence that had been submitted to them. They said: “The woodland and green recycling waste area is a separate planning unit which is used for different and unrelated purposes from the land used for the stationing of caravans/mobile homes for residential occupation at Warfield Park.

“The woodland and green waste recycling areas are therefore not considered ancillary uses to Warfield Park.”