Public notices: Plan to turn a disused Cookham pub into a family home

The public notices feature several applications regarding flats on Maidenhead High Street and a proposal to turn a disused pub in Cookham into a family home.

Road closures:

No vehicles will be permitted to proceed along Holyport Road from its northern junction with A330 Ascot Road to its junction with Moneyrow Green.

The alternative route for vehicles affected by this closure is via Holyport Road and A330 Ascot Road.

The purpose of the road closure is to facilitate gully jetting and CCTV works, and it will be in operation between 9am and 3pm on Tuesday, October 7.

Planning: 

Sorbon Estates has submitted a ‘prior notification’ application to change the use of the first and second floors of 82 High Street into a studio and one-bedroom flat.

Planning permission to build flats between 74 and 82 High Street was approved in May this year, and this is part of wider plans to convert the floors above Tesco Express, Three, Optico Opticians, and CEX into flats fronting the High Street.

Planning consent has also been submitted for two internally illuminated fascia signs at 88-90 High Street for the relocation of Card Factory into the newly transformed former Poundland store.

Elsewhere, two Cookham residents have applied for listed building consent to convert The Chequers in Cookham into a family home.

Originally converted into a public house in the 19th century, the site on Dean Lane was last used as an Indian restaurant, which closed in 2018 and has been on the market since.

The couple are keen to save the Grade II listed building, which has ‘slowly been deteriorating in condition over the six years it has been vacant’ and is ‘now a sad shadow of its former self’.

On the first floor, a new opening will be created in the wall separating the two front bedrooms to enable an ensuite to be installed.

Externally, a greenhouse and an open-sided carport are proposed, as well as a new porch to the front.

Next, a retrospective planning application has been submitted for three entrance piers at the entrance to the De Havilland Place residential development next to Grove Park Business Park.

Applicant Shanly Homes said the entrance piers have been constructed to define the main access point to the residential development and provide ‘an appropriate sense of arrival’ for visitors.

Plans are also in to create a single-storey glazed link extension from Dovecote to Westdean House on White Place Farm in Cookham.

This is to facilitate changing the Grade II listed Dovecote, currently used as a store, into habitable accommodation with a new mezzanine floor and alterations to fenestration following the demolition of existing stables.

Finally, a prior notification has been submitted for the ground and first floors of the Halifax building in Maidenhead High Street.

It is proposed to convert the first floor into four flats and the ground floor into four more flats.

The second and third floors of the site at 16-20 High Street have already received prior notification permission for their conversion to residential as either 9 or 7 flats.