Councillors have approved an application for flats on a site in Maidenhead and refused one for a care home at the same site.
Members of the Royal Borough’s Maidenhead development control committee, voted unanimously to support plans by Campmoss Property for 76 flats at the site of a former office building called Highway House in Norreys Drive at its May 29 meeting. The offices were demolished in 2011.
The two seven-storey residential buildings will accommodate, in total, 12 one-bedroom flats and 64 with two bedrooms. The plan includes a proportion of 30 per cent affordable home – all for social rent – but Campmoss Property is seeking to do a deal with a registered housing provider which could make the whole development social housing.
At the same meeting councillors then voted to refuse a proposal by the same developer to build a 68-bed care home on the same 0.2-hectare L-shaped site.
The proposed six-storey development was refused for six reasons:
- Inappropriate location for a care home
- Its proximity to a major road
- Air quality issues for vulnerable residents
- Poor quality design
- Fails to make best use of the land
- Too many floors
Both applications were for full planning permission.
The site, which already has permission for offices, sits between two existing office buildings, one of which is the former Volvo building, where owner Runnymede Borough Council was refused PDR consent to convert it to 30 flats earlier this year, due to it being in a protected employment area, meaning planning permission would be required.
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