Slough Borough Council: Residential Extensions Guidelines- details of stages prior to adoption

Residential Extensions Guidelines- details of stages prior to adoption

Adopted January 2010

This SPD was approved for adoption on the 11 January 2010 by the Planning Committee at their meeting of 15 December 2010. The period for a judicial review of the decision to adopt it closed on 22nd February 2010 and. This SPD now forms part of Slough’s LDF and is therefore a material consideration in the planning process.

Copies of the SPD, the adoption statement, and a report of the responses received on the draft SPD and responses to those can be downloaded here or viewed free of charge at the council offices, St Martins Place, Bath Road (by appointment Monday to Friday, between 9am and 4.45pm), as well as at the council’s libraries (Central, Britwell, Cippenham and Langley) and previously at 'My Council', Landmark Place, High Street (opposite Slough Library).

The Role of the Residential Extensions Guidelines SPD

The principal purpose of this SPD is to provide additional guidance on how to interpret and implement Core Policy 8 (Sustainability and the Environment) of the Slough Local Development Framework Core Strategy 2006 – 2026 (adopted 2008) and of Saved Policies H14, H15, EN1, EN2 and T2 of the Slough Local Plan (2004), until such time as they are replaced by policies in other Development Plan Documents.

The new guidelines have been produced in light of increasing pressures for householders to build larger and more dominant extensions, and the impact of such extensions on both the general street scene and residential amenities within established residential areas of Slough. This SPD replaces the previous the previous Development Control Guidelines for Residential Extensions approved by the council in 1994. Those guidelines proved to be of significant benefit in achieving satisfactory schemes and have generally been accepted by householders.

The SPD will assist the development control process in assessing applications for house extensions through endorsing, co-ordinating and giving weight to the decision making process set out within them. This will give more certainty and clarity to applicants and agents proposing and submitting householder applications, and help improve the transparency and consistency of decision making.