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All areas: Cutting through the jargon of public notices
Each week, the Slough & Windsor Express 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.
You can find out about traffic orders and road closures affecting your travel plans, and keep up to date with the latest changes proposed by your local council.
As part of the local newspaper industry’s commitment to highlighting the important role of public notices (see opposite), we have launched a new feature in print and online which will make it easier to keep track of notices which affect you.
Each week, this column will highlight some of the significant public notices in our area, cutting through the jargon and giving plain English explanations of what is planned.
Planning:
An Old Windsor hotel and conference centre is seeking to turn its squash courts into a children’s activity centre.
The De Vere Beaumont Estate, in Burfield Road, has applied for planning permission to convert its squash court facility into a children’s play area.
The courts are housed in a stand-alone brick building constructed in 1990, which the hotel is hoping to extend and transform into a play area for the children of guests and visitors.
The centre is also looking to refurbish its tennis courts, and improve the lighting on one of its footpaths.
Plans are also in to build a new stable building for two horses at Brookfield House, in Park Lane, Horton.
The owner of the grade two listed Georgian country house is seeking to build the equine accommodation, which would also include a tack room and hay store.
The stables would be on the west side of the property, beside the tennis court.
A service station for the M25 could be built in Iver Heath after a planning application was submitted by Colne Valley Motorway Service Area Ltd.
The plans include a main building where hot and cold food would be sold, a hotel, two drivethru buildings and a petrol station with 30 pumps.
See our website for more information on these plans.
Highways:
A road in the Slough Trading Estate is set to be closed for 18 months while works take place.
The council will be closing Banbury Avenue from 6am on Saturday, January 30 for up to a year-and-a-half, or before the works are completed ahead of schedule.
While the closure is in place, vehicles will not be able to pass through Banbury Avenue from its junction with Oxford Avenue.
The speed limit on another Slough road is also set to change.
From today (Friday), the speed limit on Cheviot Road will reduced to 20mph.