A FORMER High Wycombe Barclays Bank will be converted into a swim school after planning officers give the go-ahead.
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.
Officers refuse plans to build new houses, including affordable homes on land south of Lower Road, Haddenham (21/01984/APP).
Developer Rectory Homes Ltd won’t be erecting 14 family homes, consisting of two, three, four, and five-beds as planning officers believed the plans will impact the rural, open countryside character of the area and that housing is not needed at the site.
This is despite planners proposing four of the dwellings to be affordable for young families to get on the property ladder.
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Each home would have had a private garden and two car parking spaces with unallocated visitor provision.
Nevertheless, officers refused the scheme, who also believed some of the plots will look into each other, creating a loss of privacy for future occupiers.
Swim school to replace former bank at Common Road, Flackwell Heath, High Wycombe (22/06823/FUL).
The ground floor of the Barclays Bank, which closed “some time ago,” will be converted into a new swim school.
The premises would be made available to hire private swimming teachers for individual or small group classes for all ages from young children to adults. Its primary use would not be for leisure or sports purposes.
It would only be used to provide a service to privately paying local customers for swimming lessons.
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The planning statement reads: “The applicant is passionate about offering a service to the local community which will meet an identified need resulting from a shortage of provision of swimming pools of an appropriate size and in convenient locations.
“This facility will become a truly valuable community asset, utilising a vacant building and providing a vital local service appropriate for this central village location as an alternative to the site being lost from such a use to a wholly residential site.”
Elderly care home could be turned into a nursery at The Wyke, 16 Marsham Way, Gerrards Cross (PL/22/3141/FA).
The care home could accommodate up to 111 children with up to 26 full-time and 10 part-time qualified staff.
The proposed nursery, which would be operated by Fennies, could open from 7am for 12 hours during the weekdays.
Works to the building could include demolishing the conservatory to erect a single-storey rear infill extension, changes to the doors and windows, and erecting storage structures.
Six main care rooms could be created for babies, toddlers, pre-school, as well as one art room. Five car parking spaces, including one disabled bay, with two electric vehicle charging points, are also proposed.
Ten bicycle stores and storage for buggies are also included. Bucks planning officers are yet to decide on the application.
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