A Colnbrook car sales and valet service is trying again for planning permission for its current operations.
Four new planning applications for Colnbrook and Poyle were registered in the last six weeks including, most notably, a further attempt by Cape Corporation Ltd to legitimise the car sales and car wash facility opposite the old Station House.
The site on the Old Bath Road, previously the location of a bungalow called Theale, has operated without permission for the last few years. Use as a commercial car park servicing Heathrow has ceased but was the subject of an Enforcement Notice. A permission granted to build 6 flats and 4 houses in 2008 was extended in 2012.
It is anticipated that the site could accommodate 30 parked vehicles on display and for sale, with 10 spaces reserved for staff and customers to use. The washing and valeting of vehicles would continue to take place in the current position at the front of the site.
A change of use (P/12934/008) is to support vehicle sales and display is sought.
The company lost its appeal in 2012 and believes improved access arrangements will enable it to win over concerns.
Other applications registered include:
P/15429/000 – Change of use of from vacant Class B1(A) Office to split level Class C3 2-bedroom flat, Bridge House, Bridge Street, Colnbrook (05-Dec-2012)
P/10085/002 – Temporary facility to deal with an increase in leachate pollution levels at “Area C” former landfill site adjacent to the Colnbrook By Pass (03-Dec-2012)
P/11277/004 – Submission of details relating to conditions (relating to accesses, footways and verges) for planning permission P/11277/002 for the demolition and refurbishment of units in Colndale Road, Poyle Industrial Estate and change of use to Business, General Industry, and Storage & Distribution (07-Dec-2012)
Observations can be submitted to the Parish Council, or directly in writing to the Development Control Manager, St. Martins Place, 51 Bath Road, Slough SL1 3UF or by email to planning@slough.gov.uk.
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Ever since the Cape Corporation purchased this land (remember when they illegally blocked a public right of way?) and have “sub-let” it to a variety of businesses they have been a blight to both legitmate business and residents.Local residents get little respite from traffic noise and cherish Sunday mornings when there are little freight movements from the surrounding industrial estates, this is now disturbed by loud music being played from 8am.
This might be a way forward, it is not to be considered as an opinion of the Parish Council but a personal viewpoint only as a resident
“Copyright owners have the exclusive right to play or perform their copyright works in public. Therefore, anyone wishing to play or perform a substantial part of a copyright work in public must obtain the consent or licence of the copyright owners unless one of the statutory exemptions set out in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) applies.”
If the music is audible then would it be considered as being played in Public as the car wash is a place of work.
This is from the PRS (Performing Rights Society) website.
“5. Workplaces
Workers/colleagues and/or customers/clients have been recognised by the courts as falling within the composer’s ‘public’. Any person wishing either to play or to authorise the playing of our music to such individuals in the workplace – wherever that workplace is situated – should therefore obtain a Music Licence.
PRS for Music requires any workplace using music to obtain a Music licence. However, PRS for Music, at its discretion, will not make a charge for its licence in certain circumstances:
Home offices within a private residence – for an individual working on their own in the home office or for people who are permanently resident at that address. However, if you have colleagues working with you (who do not live at the premises) or customers/clients coming into your home (and music is played at these times), PRS for Music would apply the relevant tariff.
Lone workers – workplaces with only one worker, where music is not made available to any visitors/customers coming onto the premises.
Personal Portable Devices – Where music is only used in the workplace by individual employees or workers solely by means of Personal Portable Devices (such as MP3 players) with headphones. Any music must only be audible to the employee or worker to whom the Personal Portable Device belongs through a headset attached to that device and not to any other individual in the workplace.
If music is made available to employees or visitors to the premises by any other means, PRS for Music would apply the relevant tariff.