6:00am Friday 12th June 2009
By Oliver Evans
PROPOSALS outside of the town centre include controversial plans to build houses on five greenfield sites.
In Desborough the council wants homes and shops on Desborough Road car park and Kings Centre site, which would be moved.
There should be a new open space off Desborough Park Road or Victoria Street to compliment the opening up of the River Wye through the area.
In Hughenden, the former Compair site will include a park and care home or “residential community” along with homes.
Bucks New University is building flats and Amersham and Wycombe College wants to move to the site.
Yet the adjacent former De La Rue site will see less allocation for business, 30 per cent, because of the downturn. Homes will make up 70 per cent.
Five greenfield sites are likely to be used to meet housing targets by 2026. Liberal Democrats have warned the town was the “dumping ground” for new homes (see link, bottom of story).
Sites are: Abbey Barn, by RAF Daws Hill, Gomm Valley off the A40 in High Wycombe, Slate Meadow in Bourne End and Terriers Farm.
Abbey Barn south, by Daws Hill Lane, would be 450 homes and either offices, a relocated St Bernard’s and St Augustine’s schools or a mix of homes and businesses.
And up 100 homes would be allowed at the bottom of Tylers Green, by Wheeler Avenue.
The homes target would be met in Princes Risborough at Park Mill Farm, north of Longwick Road or rear of Poppy Road, massively expanding the town.
It puts forward four options for the disused Bourne End to High Wycombe railway line. This could see all or none of the line protected.
For more information go to www.wycombe.gov.uk
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