Bracknell and Wokingham planning round up

You can find out more about each application by searching the application number in Bracknell Forest Council or Wokingham Borough council’s online planning portals.

Wokingham Borough Council: 242144

Plans for a new communications kiosk with a digital advertising screen in Wokingham town centre have been refused.

New world payphones wanted to install public pay phones outside 42 Market Place and 58 Peach Street.

This would include a digital advertisement screen which would change every ten seconds, as well as a defibrillator.

But plans have been refused as given the ‘size, illumination and changing display’ of the advertisement, it would be ‘visually dominant and unduly prominent to the detriment of the streetscape’.

This would fail to conserve or enhance the character or appearance of Wokingham town centre, planning officers said.

Bracknell Forest Council: 24/00165/FUL

The former site of a Co-operative food in Binfield will be turned into three individual shops after plans were approved by Bracknell Forest Council.

Located at 5-7 Oakmede Place, it will be converted back into three units. Two new external doors will be built to provide separate entrances to each unit.

Bracknell Forest Council: 24/00520/FUL

A storage space at a horse’s stables in Warfield will be used for residential purposes.

The ground floor of Pine Lodge Stables on Bishops Lane, Warfield, will become a home after planning permission was granted by Bracknell Forest Council.

The stables currently serve as a private livery yard.

Wokingham Borough Council: 240694

Four new houses will be built in Earley after existing ones on the site were demolished.

Wokingham Borough Council gave the green light for owners of 1 and 2 Compton Close, Earley, to demolish the two existing houses and build four new ones in its place.

It comes despite Earley Town Council recommending refusal based on claims of inadequate parking and whether the houses will provide enough space for future residents.

There are currently nine existing car parking spaces, and the same number will be retained.

Bracknell Forest Council: 24/00126/OBS

New advertising at Bracknell Beeches on Old Bracknell Lane has been approved.

Weston Homes will put up new signs and flags at the new housing development, Bracknell beeches, after being given the green light by Bracknell Forest Council.

But the authority says that no advert should only be displayed if given full permission by the owner of the site and anybody affected, with careful consideration over whether it would impact drivers.