Meeting tonight on Daws Hill and sport centre plans (From Bucks Free Press)
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Meeting tonight on Daws Hill and sport centre plans
9:07am Monday 13th July 2009 in
A PUBLIC meeting will be held tonight on plans to build more than a thousand homes in the Daws Hill area of High Wycombe and redevelop the town’s sports centre.
The meeting on the “M40 gateway” project will be held at Amersham & Wycombe College’s Spring Lane, Flackwell Heath campus from 7pm to 9pm.
Homes and offices could be built on the former RAF Daws Hill, off Daws Hill Lane, and adjoining Abbey Barn south and north.
And Wycombe District Council wants to build a coach station at Wycombe Sports Centre.
This would mean the athletics track would have to move to Sir William Ramsay School, Hazlemere, to make way.
The coach development would fund the re-development of the Handy Cross sports centre, postponed last year because of the credit crunch.
The council plans also include plans for more than 6,000 homes throughout Wycombe district and the redevelopment of High Wycombe town centre.
To see the plans in full click here (pdf, 12mb).
The Daws Hill section is on page 100.
Another meeting, on sustainability, will be held on Thursday from 7pm to 9pm at John Hampden School, Marlow Hill, High Wycombe.
Give your views on the consultation at WDF Consultation, Planning Policy Team, Wycombe District Council, Freepost HY120, Planning and Sustainability WDC 63, Queen Victoria Road, High Wycombe, HP11 1BB. Email spatial_planning@wycombe.gov.uk.
Comments(5)
Plus ça change...
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10:15am Mon 13 Jul 09
The Sports Centre/bus interchamge would be an excellent site for a Viewing Tower, alongside these other excellent activities.
People on the motorway network would easily see such a Wycombe district marker from way off and, if suitably equipped, it would be a major tourist attraction in itself.
Pity they can't improve Daws Hill Lane and make it more suitable for the traffic that uses it and get rid of those irritating judder bars.
I never use London Road to get to the other side of town if I can help it.
It's as unnavigable as the Northwest Passage ...
Slacker
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11:24am Mon 13 Jul 09
Flackwell is already suffering under the strain of people using it as a rat run to bypass other roads, it is just getting worse and worse
green damage limitation
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1:29pm Mon 13 Jul 09
Wycomen need to look at less homes and less business development to avoid gridlock --also widening all Wynchbottom Lane to ease traffic in the area
bakerbill
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9:44am Tue 14 Jul 09
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Punchy says...
9:33am Mon 13 Jul 09
I know one Daws Hill Lane resident who bought at (what turned out to be) the top of the market. He has tried selling recently at a 25% discount to market (a total of 34% down on what he paid originally) because of concerns over these developments and the property just will not shift. He and others are looking at financial ruin.