Apartment block plan thrown out by inspector

A plan to build 25 apartments on a car storage yard has been dismissed by a planning inspector, who said it would harm the local area.

N & R Investments Limited asked the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to give it outline permission to build the apartments in a five and six-storey building in Stafferton Way, Maidenhead.

But the council rejected the project in May 2024 and the Planning Inspectorate dismissed it following an appeal on Tuesday.

Planning inspector Mark Philpott said the apartment block would have been "an incongruous and uninspired addition" because of its scale, form and design.

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