This week’s Bracknell and Wokingham planning roundup features commemorative stained glass windows at the Royal Military Academy and solar panels at Broadmoor Hospital.

You can find out more about each application by searching the planning portal of either Bracknell Forest or Wokingham Borough Council’s website.

Bracknell Forest Council: 25/00156/LB

Owners of the Royal Memorial Chapel at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst wants to replace some of its stained-glass windows.

A listed building application to Bracknell Forest Council says the chapel is regularly used by the military and for those mourning people who died giving service.

Four windows would be replaced with a special design bearing the arms of a Field Marshall.

(Image: Royal Military Academy) Plans say the existing plain windows are ‘of no historic interest’.

Bracknell Forest Council has approved the plans and a decision is yet to be made.

Wokingham Borough Council: 250246

A residential property in Earley will be made into assisted living accommodation.

Wokingham Borough Council has approved plans to convert number 40 Elm Road, Earley into a children’s care home.

It is a two-storey detached four-bedroom home close by to schools, including Whiteknights, the Ridgeway and Hillside Primary Schools.

(Image: Homz) Radiant Care Homes said the new home would ‘address a critical need in the area’ and support three children in total. Carers would work on a rota basis, with one bedroom converted to an office.

Bracknell Forest Council: 25/00210/FUL

Another part of the Broadmoor Hospital could be getting solar panels.

The high-security psychiatric hospital wants to install solar panels on its lower car park as part of wider efforts to become carbon neutral.

Plans to install solar panels on other parts of the site have already been approved.

(Image: Oxford Architects) A statement prepared by Oxford Architects says the solar panels would help contribute to Bracknell Forest Council’s ambition to reach net zero by 2030.

Bracknell Forest Council has received the plans and a decision is yet to be made.

Bracknell Forest Council: 24/00754/LDC

Plans to use land at a caravan park for storage and a new access road have been withdrawn.

Rosemary Penfold wanted a certificate of lawfulness for land in conjunction with Pinewood Caravan Park off Nine Mile Ride.

The land is already used for storage shed and containers, and is ‘very much considered to form part of the caravan site’, according to a planning statement from Laister Planning Ltd.

With a certificate of lawfulness, the land would continue to be used to ‘facilitate the maintenance and upgrade’ of the park, which has 20 homes.

However, plans were withdrawn by the applicant before a decision could be made.