104 - 105 High Street Eton Windsor SL4 6AF Data via plota.co.uk

25/03394/FULL - Full Refused

Proposal

Partial conversion and change of use of the existing first and second floor offices to create 2no. two bedroom flats and 1no. one bedroom flat with access to a ground floor communal entrance and cycle store. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 Dec 2025
✓
Validated
15 Jan 2026
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Committee
7 May 2026
✗
Refused
11 May 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 11 May 2026 · Committee · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Windsor and Maidenhead Windsor and Ascot Development Management Committee on 7 May 2026.

Refused

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised refusal because flood safety, marketing evidence and carbon offset requirements had not been adequately addressed.
  • A neighbour objected over privacy and the need to preserve a right of way; consultees raised no objection or sought safeguards.
  • The committee voted to refuse planning permission in line with the officers’ recommendation.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee discussion, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Windsor and Maidenhead's committee minutes of 7 May 2026.

Documents 31

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

31 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: 89 and 90, High Street, Grade II, about 10 m from the postcode pin · 2 Grade II*, 29 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Public footpath about 17 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Heritage at risk about 42 m away: The Cock Pitt, 47-49, High Street; Inside the Eton built-up area; Green belt about 97 m away: London.
Not affected
No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £1,750,000 in June 2021. Other property, freehold.

18 June 2021£1,750,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Full
Postcode
SL4 6AF
Received
22 Dec 2025
Validated
15 Jan 2026
Ward
Eton And Castle
Parish
Eton Town Council
Case officer
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Target decision
12 Mar 2026
Decision
Refuse
Decision date
11 May 2026
Decision level
Committee
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 116 days from validation, 61 days slower than Windsor and Maidenhead's median of 55 for changes of use. Refused, as 36% of changes of use here are.

62%decided within 8 weeks
64%approved
78decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Windsor and Maidenhead in the last twelve months, from validation. Windsor and Maidenhead decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
25 Feb 2026
Committee
7 May 2026
Env. assessment
No
Windsor and Maidenhead
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#135 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Windsor and Maidenhead is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #82 out of 296. Only 28% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Windsor and Maidenhead is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 74% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 74% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Windsor and Maidenhead decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
72%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #293 of 296
74%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #294 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #82 of 296
28%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #47 of 296
44%
Minor dwellings approved
156 decided (1-9 homes)
96%
Major dwellings approved
27 decided (10+ homes)
64%
Change of use approved
25 decided
1,530
Total decisions
434 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.