PLANNERS withdraw their scheme to build a new care home as just one of a number of proposals in this week’s planning round up.
This is just one of the applications submitted to local authorities in Buckinghamshire in the past seven days.
To view more details for each application, go to the respective council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.
Plans for a new cafeteria have been given the go-ahead at Lower Road, Denham (PL/22/1289/FA).
An existing single-storey cafeteria near Martin-Baker Aircraft Co is set to be replaced by a two-storey café and offices.
The developer explained the existing café has to be replaced due to structural issues.
They stated: “The cafeteria and kitchen form an essential part of the facilities on this site, catering as they do for many hundreds of staff. It is therefore essential that the new facilities are provided with minimum delay once the demolition has taken place.”
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Part of the existing adjacent building will be demolished to provide better access to the terrace from the main body of the site.
To facilitate construction and provide a contractor’s compound, the existing portable cabins will be removed. The staff working in these are due to be accommodated in the new offices provided in this scheme.
Plans to build a new care home have been withdrawn at Bledlow Road, Saunderton (22/06285/FUL).
Chiltern Care wanted to demolish the existing 50-bed Cherry Tree Nursing Home and build a new care home that would have created 65-beds for the ‘frail elderly’.
On the ground and first floor, It would have provided 27-beds in the west wing and 38 in the east as well as lounges and dining rooms on all floors and community and communal space.
The proposal also includes 25 car parking spaces and a minimum of eight cycle stands. However, nearby residents objected to the scheme as they worried the roads will not accommodate the increased vehicle movements.
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One local wrote: “An enlarged nursing home can only worsen this situation [traffic] and the volume of large vehicles necessary to undertake the development will be enormous and is of grave concern to the environment.”
A developer wants to demolish a barn for new homes at Pound Lane, Preston Bisset (22/03611/APP).
Plans have been submitted to build two homes on land adjacent to the grade II listed Thorpes Farmhouse. Planning officers are yet to decide on the application.
The existing access is reconfigured to provide shared access to the proposed new dwellings with parking and garages/stores provided by the existing and retained red brick workshop fronting Pound Lane.
Garden and amenity space for both homes is provided to the south with lawned areas and terraces alongside proposed new planting.
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