Plans for houses at Heatherwood site
All areas: Proposals for 230 homes among this week’s public notices
Each week, the Advertiser publishes public notices containing important information affecting the community you live in. These statutory notices help keep the wider public informed about key issues, from plans to develop a block of flats in your neighbourhood to an application by your local bar or pub to serve alcohol for longer.
This week’s public notices include plans for more than 200 homes at the Heatherwood
Hospital site in Ascot and new cricket facilities at Claires Court School’s Ridgeway site.
Planning
Detailed plans for 230 homes on the existing Heatherwood Hospital site in Ascot have been submitted to the Royal Borough.
Plans for the redevelopment were approved by the council in 2017 and saw permission granted for a new hospital building – with patients expected in the new building in March.
Now the developer, Taylor Wimpey, has submitted its reserved matters application which includes the finer details including the number of homes and infrastructure included in the redevelopment.
The application forms the ‘final phase’ of the development and includes a mix of flat blocks up to five storeys high and two, three and four-bedroom houses.
It would include 368 car parking spaces including visitor parking, cycle storage and electric vehicle charging points and 434 cycle spaces.
There would also be ‘attractive’ open public spaces including the ‘retention and enhancement’ of the historic Bell Barrow heritage asset and new play areas for children.
Infrastructure includes a new toucan crossing on the High Street and ‘substantial’ new tree landscaping and four access points for cars.
The area will be split into four sections including the entrance street and frontage (Broadleaf Avenue), Triangular Green (Bowledge Green), Eastern Quarter (Wellington Place) and Western Quarter (Heatherwood Drive).
Following a consultation this summer, Taylor Wimpey updated its plans to reduce the number of three-storey flat blocks across the site, reduced the amount of on-street parking and increased pedestrian priority access across the site.
Plans have been lodged with the Royal Borough to create new cricket facilities at Claires Court School’s Ridgeway site.
If approved, the school is expecting to allow North Maidenhead Cricket Club to use the site at weekends due to the club no longer being able to play at its Summerleaze Park ground (see page 8).
The school proposes to use only a quarter of the 48-acre site for sport, with the remainder for agricultural use.
The school also has changing facilities and toilets so there are no plans for any additional buildings, lighting or permanent parking facilities. Highways
The Royal Borough is proposing to install a new zebra crossing on a flat-topped road hump in Switchback Road North in Maidenhead.
The crossing and road hump would be installed 21.5 metres north of the centre of the junction with Shifford Crescent.