This week’s planning round up features solar panels at Holt School and a laundrette in Crowthorne.
You can find out more about each planning application by using the application number in a search on the council’s websites.
Bracknell Forest Council: 24/00399/CLPUD
A new sheltered outdoor space at Birch Hill Primary School has been approved by the council.
Birch Hill Primary, in Leppington, Bracknell would like to attach a cantilevered canopy to the front of a classroom. This classroom is located to the southwest of the main building complex.
The planning proposal says that the canopy would ‘facilitate the school’s Special Resource Provision, providing a safe outside space, directly accessinble from the classroom.’
It would cover the existing fenced off area outside the classroom of around 100 square metres.
Bracknell Forest Council: 24/00218/FUL
A laundrette is coming to the Co-op supermarket on Crowthorne High Street.
The supermarket chain had plans approved by Bracknell Forest Council for various changes, including relocating the existing ATM, installing a new mechanical plant, and an external laundrette to the rear of the shop.
This laundrette would be self service, and the opening hours are not known yet.
Wokingham Borough Council: 241270
An application for a building on Stokes Farm to be converted for residential use has been refused by Wokingham Borough Council.
Stokes Farm, located on Binfield Road in Wokingham, already uses some of it’s spaces for hosting events and weddings.
Owners proposed changing a building, currently used for the farm, into a dwelling with the installation of windows and doors.
But the council deemed that the proposals ‘would require significant building operations/works that would amount to a re-build’. This meant it was not suitable for conversion to residential use.
Wokingham Borough Council: 241414
The Holt School will install solar panels after plans were approved by the council.
It’s in the hopes that it will reduce the carbon emissions of the school, as well as provide them with lower bills.
Solar panels will be put on the roof of three blocks of the school.
Wokingham Borough Council: 240997
Outside seating area has been approved for a café in Earley.
Waterfall Restaurant located on The Parade in Earley had already built hardstanding at the shop front. It applied ‘retrospectively’ to the Council for this to be used for seating area.
The planning application indicates that owners are also looking to increase the opening times from 9am to 8am.
Outside seating will ‘provide an active atmosphere for the shops in the parade’.
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