PLANS to transform a former Lloyds TSB bank into new homes have been submitted.
This is just one of the many applications submitted to Bucks Council in the past seven days.
To view more details for each application, go to the council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
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Officers refuse plans to convert a family home into flats at 16 Hillside, High Wycombe (22/05558/FUL).
A developer wanted to convert the three-bedroom, semi-detached home into two apartments. One would have been a two-bedroom and the other a studio.
They also wanted to construct a part two-storey and part single-storey rear extension with cycle parking and three car parking spaces.
But planning officers believed the extension would be ‘harmfully domineering and overbearing’ for its neighbour and the internal layout of the two-bedroom flat ‘fails’ to achieve satisfactory standard of living accommodation.
Plans submitted to transform former Lloyds TSB bank into homes at 60 High Street, Great Missenden (PL/22/2525/FA).
A developer has put forward a scheme to convert the bank, which closed in March 2021, into two semi-detached homes with a part two-storey and part first-floor rear extension.
It could also see a rear roof extension with four side rooflights.
The developer said the proposal will enhance the High Street as the site remains vacant and the design will be more in keeping with the area.
Planning officers are yet to determine the application.
Plans to move a gymnastics club receive overwhelming support at 12 Top Angel, Buckingham (22/02580/APP).
Lace Hill Gymnastics Club needs a larger building as its group continues to grow. It has 231 members and 250 people on the waiting list, some of whom have been waiting for over a year.
In order to move into the building, it needs to ask permission from the council to change the use of the warehouse from industrial to leisure/indoor sports activities.
Over 60 residents have written to the council voicing their support for the club’s potential move.
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One parent wrote: “I support this application as it would benefit the community and allow a wonderful family-run business to extend its offering, thereby encouraging more children to be active.
“My daughter waited 20 months on a waiting list before joining Lace Hill Gymnastics. During this time, her enthusiasm for gymnastics went to waste. Since starting lessons, she has been obsessed with doing handstands, cartwheels and back bends whenever she can.
“Approving this change of use would also free Lace Hill Community Centre, which is currently used by the gymnastics club, to be hired for other events.”
A decision is yet to be made by planning officers.
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