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BRACKNELL town centre will have a new phone shop if plans get approved.

HOME Bargains has been given the go-ahead to open a store in The Peel Centre, Bracknell.

The owner of a high-profile property in Edinburgh's Princes Street has welcomed backing for its plans to turn the former Debenhams store into new boutique hotel and hospitality hub. Pensions giant Legal & General said the £50 million renovation project, which goes before the city council's Development Management Sub Committee next week, has been recommended for approval by the city's director of planning. The proposals also have the "active support" of Essential Edinburgh - the city centre's Business Improvement District - and the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. Plans include a restaura...

As ever, it has been a busy week for planning in BRACKNELL as a number of applications have been decided on and submitted. Meanwhile, Bracknell Forest Council’s planning committee held a virtual meeting on Thursday, May 20 to discuss two plans. Although all council meetings are meant to take place in the borough chambers from now on,  the committee was allowed to conduct the meeting virtually, as long as the decisions themselves were delegated to planning officers based on there recommendations. Councillors Tina McKenzie Boyle, Ankhur Bandhari and Michael Skinner, all Conservatives, ...

HOME Bargains is trying to move into an empty unit at The Peel Centre -- but the retailer is facing stern opposition from the builders of The Lexicon. A planning application has been lodged for Home Bargains to move into the vacant store Next used to occupy at The Peel Centre. The applicants want to convert part of Unit 4a into space exclusively for the sale of food. Documents attached to the application indicate Home Bargains want to use 30 per cent of the floor space at the 1,862 square metre site for this purpose. But the proposal has irked the Bracknell Regeneration Partnership ...