05:42PM, Thursday 03 August 2023
Approval has been granted to change offices on Belmont Road into 22 flats.
Developer L-L-O Maidenhead Limited applied to turn Belmont Place, a two-storey office block on the junction of Belmont Road and Hargrave Road, into flats.
Car parking is provided by way of a basement car park, with additional spaces at ground floor level.
The existing parking spaces will be for the flats – so the proposal will allocate 24 parking spaces from the 48 spaces that currently exist on site.
Mature trees screen the southern elevation along Belmont Road, creating a buffer between the building and the road.
Two letters of response were received expressing the following concerns: loss of privacy at adjacent properties; noise and disturbance from increased usage of the access road; increase in traffic and highway safety concerns.
Further concerns were raised over the lack of visitor parking; access road rights; lack of pavement on the south side of road; no ground floor plan submitted; and the site is on a bus route.
Nonetheless, the application met the threshold for ‘prior approval’, a planning procedure that bypasses the full planning process as long as certain conditions are met.
To see all documents on this, enter reference 23/01214/CLAMA into the Windsor and Maidenhead council’s planning portal.
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