The college has submitted a joint planning application with Bewley Homes PLC to Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council to build dozens of homes after bulldozing the current building in Claremont Road.

The move will anger councillors who turned down an earlier application to sell the land for development and build a modern glass...

That bid included the plan to sell the land to housing developers to give a significant boost to the funding of the college's redevelopment, but gave no concrete details about how many would be built.