Retrospective plans for 2 Cherwell Close, car parking spaces to the rear of the shops, were refused by Slough council on Janaury 15.
The proposal described the space, it stated: “The client who knows the area well, and has complained on various occasions to Slough Environmental Department, about the fly tipping and unruly use of the open area, where cars are dumped with no regard to public safety.
“Rough sleepers and drug takers often linger in this area and it has become a mess of discarded vehicles and fly tipping.
“The client consciously wants to improve the area and has taken the following steps to bring some order to the close.”
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They applied to keep a palisade fencing, a timber frame structure, and storage containers at the site, and to change its permitted use from being a car park to being storage for two years.
The council described the changes, which had already been made as ‘obtrusive and overbearing’.
It added that the plan removes a number of parking spaces within an established car parking area, and results in a number of spaces becoming inaccessible which could ’cause pavement parking or obstruct access by emergency vehicles which would be detrimental to the users or the highway including pedestrians’.