The council have been clearing the site for weeks knowing this application would be passed, if private business started work before planning permission was given they would be made to return the site to it's former glory.
The parking ban is fractionally less than a mile and a quarter, this should be reviewed to keep them outside surrounding highly populated residential areas.
How will the council operate checks on student cars?
More council hot air.

=there'll probably be a token six months of checks then i think that will go by the wayside and the students will get away with parking anywhere! No surprises the plannig was passed this time it was always on the cards.

this is what this built up area was crying out for.

This reporter obviouly was not listening to Mrs Rogers properly, she never said that 600 students where 600 too many. What she did say is what all the neighbourhood is saying, which is the buildings are too high for this Valley or anywhere in High Wycombe and 600 students are too many in quantity for the small area they will be forced to live in, for them, however, will only be 3 years penance, for the neighbourhood and Wycombe Town a live sentence, the blocks look a bit better but not great by far, 21 towers as high as 7 storeys and all packed together will look like a beehive of unattactive dwellings against the valleys, not to mention the noise and light pollution resulting from it. Worse is that the Council has ignored their own so called the Wycombe Local PLan, the one they take quickly apply to stop you and I from building exactly the same thing they have given the Uni the go ahead for. This Wycome Local Plan
estates: I quote: Given the varied topography of Wycombe District, it is particularly important that wider views from both higher and lower ground be fully taken into account when considering planning proposals" "development and redevelopment of sites located with in valley floors or upon prominant hills shouls demonstrate to what extent available views have been taken into account" Obviously this Council has ignored his own advise and has open the gates for flooding High Wycombe with High rise, unsinspiring and cheap buildings which will look like slams in no time at all. At present only the Hospital and a couple of industrial buildings look that drab. Well what can we expext from a Planning Department that has build the most "comfortable and inspiring shopping centre for us" It's time to leave this area folks!! Or if you love it and want to stay... let's get rid of this uncaring Planning Department before they do more damage!

The University is one of the largest local employers and the students bring huge amounts of money into the town and make it a more vibrant and exciting place to live and work. It would be so nice if Wycombe could actually be proud of the University instead of constantly carping about it.

Personally, I have never heard anyone carping on about the University per say, but only about a Council who is allowing their bad idea of placing their poor students in a high rise, beehive type of development, situated in a place where will cause more than one or two problems not only for the residents but for the students themselves!
Suspicion is that the Council wants to build more high rise, uninspiring buildings in Wycome and that gives them the precedent they need for them not to be able to turn down further planning applications of this kind!!

Let's get this straight: it's not a proper university, it is offering degrees in bed selling for god sake! These universities only exist to massage unemployment figures for the under 25's.

Mariamar is right to point out the Local Plan, Grunge Towers goes against many basic tenets of that policy document.

With regard to Jellytussle's comments, students bring plenty of government money and borrowed money to town, there is no net economic gain for the country.

Most students in higher education today are only there because of the "feel-good factor": the upward housing market allowed mum and dad to borrow and fund the little ones through further education.

A new reality is dawning on us: "son, are you really sure you want that BSc Bed Selling with Cookery, maybe you should just get a job?"

I think we should form a mob, complete with flaming torches, and march on the University and demand they all leave.

High Wycombe. It's a local town for local people.

Kadoogan, I was disscusing with my neigbours the possibility of doing just that, a march from the Council, they are the ones full of their self importance, to the Uni and back, with the BFP on tow.

The meeting proved last night that WDC are just not willing or care about the views of its residents. Its really time to vote this "sham" of a council out. It was most obvious that the case officer was far out of his depth and that he may as well have been employed by BNU for his bias!!

Its interesting to note that the so called independant architect is featured significantly in the decision. Its interesting to note that Mr Ferguson sat on a panel of judges just last year for The Award for Conservation, the Award for Collections Care and the Student Conservator of the Year Award. The panel consisted of ONLY 8 members. Is it a pure coincidence that out of the hundreds of available candidates for this panel; one of the panel (Dr Rosalind Savill) happened to have an Honorary Doctorate from Buckinghamshire and Chilterns University College (BCUC) now known as Bucks New University …….. the very applicant in this planning proposal!! I hope that the councillors can be so proud knowing this and still voting it in! I guess the ombudsman will be very interested in this information!

They have done nothing also to address the following which flies in the face of their very own local plan ...... its disgusting that we have to pay these muppets to "shape" the landscape!

Physical Structure Size and Siting:

By virtue of the siting and excessive bulk and size, the proposal would present a dominant feature on the street scene and would be detrimental to the character of the surrounding area. Furthermore the development would present an excessive level of wall massing facing the neighbouring properties which would appear overbearing to the detriment of the amenities to the occupiers of these properties. Seven Storey structures are certainly NOT in keeping with the area. As such the development would fail to comply with Policies G3 (General Design Guidance).

Parking:

The development fails to provide an appropriate level of parking for the number of accommodation rooms proposed. As such the development would result in displaced parking which would be detrimental to the local highway conditions in the area. I have noted also in the apparent “snub” of meetings between WDC Planning and Derek Horne Associates regarding very real parking concerns. As such the development fails to comply with Policy T2 (On-Site Parking and Servicing)

Noise Pollution:

Residents in both sides of the valley, without doubt will be only too aware of the acoustics within the valley. ANY sounds currently, including, but not limited to the local public house, sirens and revellers are easily heard. This is particularly prevalent at night. It would ne naïve to believe that a complex containing hundreds of students will be “quiet”. I would welcome a visit form a planning official late at night to observe the acoustics of the valley at first hand.

yet again rural councillors dumping in town wards

I am incensed by the decision made to go ahead with the building.

It's not that the residents are against students or the university, but are rightly concerned by the affect that this building will have on their lives.. everyday! As has been pointed out, the students themselves will only have 3 years to endure the conditions, but residents surrounding the building have built their lives here. It's their homes.. their own deserved space to chill out.

Why haven't any of the council's board listened to their concerns? Probably because they don't live anywhere in the affected area and when they disappear off to their homes after work they don't need to worry about the potential problems that will be caused. Maybe we should park outside their houses and shine lights through their windows to emulate the disturbance that we are fearful of.

As the original plans show, they obviously have not considered surrounding residents and the minor changes that have been made seem to me a quick solution to address the complaints so that they can quickly move on with the job.

This is a disgusting way to operate in our society. If we can't trust the council to take our views into account and to respect us as residents of High Wycombe then frankly, we're screwed!

To all of you who have written in I ask your permission to copy your comments and send the lot to the Uni, the Council and the ombudsman, pls et me know if ok HW 510171