Flats plan rejected for golf store site

The six-storey building will not be built on Bath Road as the developer had hoped

A plan to build 50 flats on the site of a golf equipment store has been rejected.

The project to demolish the American Golf building in Bath Road, Slough, and use the land for a new six-storey apartment block was initially rejected by Slough Borough Council in April.

The developer's appeal was dismissed by the Planning Inspectorate on 11 October.

Planning inspector Siobhan Watson said the development would have had "an unacceptable impact on highway and pedestrian safety".

She said the loss of employment land and the potential living conditions for the flats' occupants meant they should not be built.

The council had sought to claim its costs from the developer after alleging unreasonable behaviour, but the planning inspector also rejected that claim.

The American Golf building would have been demolished