RESIDENTS fear stadium developers will be given the 'freebie' of a new road up to Wycombe Air Park – because of a major waste centre development.

Proposals have been made to make High Heavens waste centre on Clay Lane, Booker, Great Marlow, opposite to the airfield, one of two waste transfer hubs in the south of Buckinghamshire.

Waste Recycling Group wants to use High Heavens as a site where waste can be 'bulked up' and transferred via larger vehicles to a proposed 'Energy from Waste' plant at Greatmoor, north Bucks.

Wycombe District Council Deputy Leader Cllr Tony Green last week raised the prospect of a 'common solution' if both the stadium and waste centre schemes went ahead – with an access road running from the Wycombe Road, near Handy Cross.

He said it could be used for matchday traffic and possibly for waste vehicles going to High Heavens which, although he insisted this was purely speculative.

But details of a possible road have also emerged from a map produced by firm RPS for WDC in 2009.

Proposals for improvements to Wycombe Road/Ragmans Lane junction and an upgrade to make the connecting bridleway a 'B' standard road going up to a new junction in Clay Lane are shown in the document entitled 'Project: Adams Park Relocation'.

It was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Marlow Bottom Residents Association Chairman Peter Borrows said: “Our worry is that this road will get built at public expense because of the waste transfer and effectively become a freebie for the stadium developer and overcome some of the challenges that anyone developing a stadium would face in terms of traffic.

“That is a great concern.”

Last month WDC said plans seen by Marlow Bottom residents of a similar route map had not been drawn up by officers.

But it added Wycombe Sports Development Limited – acting on behalf of Wycombe Wanderers and London Wasps - has looked at a potential new access drive.

Mike Abbott, Planning Manager for WRG, said residents had expressed concerns over extra lorries.

He said this was “heightened by the recent proposals for a sports stadium on the airfield site.”

A public exhibition by WRG detailing the High Heavens proposals will take place on March 18 at Sands Village Hall, Lane End, High Wycombe, from 1pm to 7.30 pm.