The supreme court has rejected the final outstanding appeals by objectors to the HS2 high-speed rail link, who had claimed the decision-making process was unlawful. See the report here.
Sunday 26 January 2014
Friday 24 January 2014
HS2 - Latest
Latest
A Supreme Court decision on an appeal against High Speed 2 by Bucks County Council and others is still awaited . Chiltern council leader Nick Rose said the failure to make a Major Projects Authority report on HS2 public is “morally corrupt”. The report is believed to suggest that HS2 is rated “Amber-Red” – in danger of failing. Rose said: “We'd like to express our continued disbelief at the stifling of democracy in this way."Monday 20 January 2014
Gerrards Cross
Gerrards Cross to be new garden city?
The national press has been reporting for some that the government
has supressed a report calling for two new garden cities. One would be in Oxfordshire,
another in Bucks. Today the Daily
Mail reports Eric Pickles is backing the scheme. The newspaper names the
locations as Yalding, Kent and Gerrards Cross in Bucks.
Bucks County Council pledged to fight any plans for a garden city at Gerrards Cross, saying it will contravene green belt policy.
Bucks County Council pledged to fight any plans for a garden city at Gerrards Cross, saying it will contravene green belt policy.
Meanwhile, in
the Telegraph, Boris Johnson says there is enough brownfield land in London
to solve the housing crisis.
Saturday 18 January 2014
HS2 - Consultation
HS2 - Consultation extended
The consultation on the Environmental Statement has been
extended to 10 February after HS2 Ltd failed to distribute 877 pages of
documents from electronic versions of the consultation documents. The company
had claimed it had corrected the errors by 16 December, but the Commons
Standing Orders Committee was told that errors still persisted. HS2 said it was
happy to comply with the ruling but claimed:
“The pages that were briefly missing from the Environmental
Statement memory sticks would not have prevented anyone from being able to
respond to the consultation.”
Friday 17 January 2014
Wilton Park
Wilton Park redevelopment consultation opens
South Bucks Council has opened its consultation on the development
brief for the ex-MoD site at Wilton Park.
The consultation ends on 28 February. You can access the plans and a response form on the South Bucks website.
Chalfont Holy Cross
Chalfont Holy Cross plans approved
Controversial plans for nearly 200 new homes and a care home
on the site of the former Holy Cross Convent have been given the go-ahead on
appeal. The scheme was unanimously thrown out by Chiltern council last year,
but a planning inspector has now approved the scheme.
Monday 13 January 2014
Friday 10 January 2014
Stoke Poges
Stoke Poges free school thrown out by South Bucks
In a decision that is almost bound to end up being challenged
in the courts, South Bucks council rejected plans to convert an office block in
Stoke Poges into a secondary free school. The Khalsa Secondary Academy would
largely have served residents of nearby Slough.
Thursday 9 January 2014
Aylesbury Plan
Green fields threatened as Vale of Aylesbury Plan thrown out
Monday 6 January 2014
Marlow
Developers are aiming to convert a Marlow office block into apartments under the government's new permitted development rights.
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