BROADMOOR Hospital is set to see changes to its notorious site after council bosses said yes to new development plans.
This is just one of five interesting planning decisions made by the authority this week.
For full details of each plan, enter the planning reference at planapp.bracknell-forest.gov.uk.
Changes at Broadmoor Hospital (planning reference: 20/00271/NMA)
A £250 million redevelopment of Crowthorne’s mental health hospital got underway in 2014 after permission for the plan was granted in 2012.
The new site opened at the end of 2019.
Famously, the site used to be an asylum for the criminally insane before becoming a high-security hospital in 1948.
Current patients include Peter Sutcliffe, also known as the Yorkshire Ripper.
The redevelopment proposed to demolish and part-demolish various parts of the buildings at the site.
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Now Broadmoor chiefs are asking Bracknell Forest Council for permission to change how Berkshire House is partially demolished.
After consideration, council bosses said yes to the proposal, meaning new plans for the line of demolition and how the facade should be re-built will go ahead.
Application to prune two trees (20/00051/TRTPO)
Homeowners at a property in Sandhurst will not be allowed to undertake work on two trees at their Gibbons Close home.
This comes after Bracknell Forest Council refused the plea.
Refurbishment and extension of Somerton House (20/00254/FUL)
Residents at Winkfield Row’s Somerton House will be allowed to refurbish and extend the 18th-century property after permission from BFC.
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Applicants asked for this to go ahead after permission from 2017 expired.
Because Somerton House has special historical interest — planning reports say it has been around since 1747 — anyone wanting to change the layout of the site needs special planning permission first.
Extensions at a house in Bracknell (20/00121/FUL)
A property at Chisbury Close in Bracknell will be allowed to add extensions after BFC said yes to plans.
Applicants applied for the erection of a single-storey at the back of the property, and a two-storey side extension.
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This comes despite one objection from a neighbour.
Tree work in Warfield (20/00065/TRCA)
Proposals to prune six trees and chop down one more were submitted to the council in April.
This came from a property on Church Lane in Warfield.
BFC gave applicants permission to go ahead with the plan.
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