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BBC News
22-07-2025
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Empty listed Maidenhead pub conversion plan rejected
A plan to use a Grade II listed pub that has been empty for more than two-and-a-half years as a house has been Bridge House, in Paley Street, near Maidenhead, shut in January 2023 but the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) said the applicants failed to show there was no demand for the of the building dates back to the 16th Century but it was substantially extended in the 20th Century. It was first listed in proposal to use the pub and an adjoining barn for a four-bedroom house was rejected by RBWM last week, which also rejected giving its owners listed building consent. Planning agents said five offers were submitted for the site between January 2023 and summer 2024 but no one wanted to use it as a pub.A report by real estate company Savills found the pub could not be run as a viable business "in the short, medium or longer term".RBWM said there were other issues with the application, including that it failed to show the effects the house would have ecologically and on biodiversity. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
BBC News
26-06-2025
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Rowsley car park traveller plan rejected by council
Plans for a council traveller site in a Derbyshire town have been rejected after facing opposition from residents and other local Tuesday, Derbyshire Dales District Council opted to reject its own application for a temporary two-year plot on the Old Station Close car park in highlighted the reduction in parking spaces, impact on a disabled arts charity and its users, disruption to residents and businesses and the effect on a neighbouring cycle followed nearly 100 objections from residents filed to the council, along with opposition from Derbyshire county and Rowsley parish councils. Legal challenge The planning application had followed a district council approval in December to allocate temporary two-year traveller sites for specific families for parts of the year – with Rowsley only to be used between March and Hobson, former district council leader, said she "strongly" objected to the plans and she had made formal complaints to the authority over what she felt had been a "flawed process".She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service there would have been a legal challenge made to the council if the plans had been Hobson said there had been a failure to properly assess equality and that the scheme represented a "travesty of planning and a betrayal of the people of Rowsley". Kerry Andrews, director of the neighbouring Level Arts Centre for disabled artists, claimed there was "ingrained ableism and discrimination" demonstrated by the whose children use the centre said it needed protection to retain its viability and community benefit, with concerns over the lack of essential parking for disabled Gibbs, an objecting resident, said his newly opened flour business could have been at risk of closing if the plans were approved, after takings were halved when part of the car park was used by Severn Trent earlier this year. John Youatt, a campaigner and planning consultant who has advocated for housing travellers on an approved site known as the Woodyard, near Cromford, claimed travellers had been "discriminated against for 15 years".Steve Buffery, strategic planning manager for the county council, said the plot was not suitable for a traveller site, citing its proximity to a cycling and walking route and the potential perception they would be "isolated" and "segregated" from the surrounding Simmonds, interim development manager for the district council, said the "perfect" traveller site did not exist and that this plot would have provided temporary relief for some of the district's needs.
