Bletchley Park scheme, a proposed HMO, and changes to a listed building among Milton Keynes planning applications

The new learning and collection centre is the second phase of the restoration plan for the historic home of the codebreakers in Sherwood Drive.

Improved access to the buildings, and better facilities at Blocks A and E and the Teleprinter Annex are in the offing.

This month’s application to Milton Keynes Council includes new links between areas, changes to coach bays, the use of more space than originally intended, and the demolition of a temporary post-war building to provide another coach bay.

The application has been lodged with MK Council and is available for comment on the planning department’s website. It is set to be decided by the council in August.

Other planning applications received and decided by the council include:

> Pardeep Rajbans has applied for retrospective permission to change the use of 1 Bilbrook Lane, in Furzton, into a 10-bedroom house of multiple occupation (HMO).

The building has been licensed by another department of council as a HMO since 2013, and renewed in 2018. The latest move is because it did not have planning approval for the change of use from being a family home.

Mr Rajbans has provided a statement in support of his application, saying that he has “fully complied with the stringent requirements/guidance for HMO licence”.

But it adds that he was not aware of the change of use in planning terms.

“Mr Rajbans has been a landlord letting other properties for more than 15 years and ran his own letting agency for 10 years,” the statement says.

> Thomson and Lamb hairdressing has applied for listed building consent to convert outbuildings behind its shop in High Street, Olney. The 18th century shop is in the Olney Conservation Area and is a Grade II listed building. Some of the work has already been carried out.