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    BOOKERite wrote:
    I wonder how much is going to be spent on the feasibility study for the project.
    Great Idea - Handy Cross is too difficult to get to if you live in Wycombe - lets move the track even further away so its even harder to get too and about a mile from any bus route and even further from the railway.

    Then we line the pockets of Folleys after they made their fortune out of the gravel and the waist dump that was used to fill in the hole (Signs of the Marlow By pass back hand deals once again)

    Then there's the cost

    Cost of old plans being dumped

    Cost of new plans and a complete redesign (No doubt the old design wouldn't work on a different site that would be too easy)

    New Road layouts as the Bourne End Road inst exactly a little country lane used only by sheep and the odd tractor especially in the school run

    Opened up Footpaths - that's a laugh - there's already a number of footpaths and people already walk their dogs through the mud all over round the pits (They are not lakes - get it right they are Gravel Pits) and have done for many years already
    and the old path a that runs from Marlow to Bourne End is even older than the Road.

    And to cap it all - Has anyone actual asked these so called ecstatic residents of Little Marlow if they want it or is it going to be another public debate where the any objection is ignored so they came claim that everyone loved the idea and their mates can have a new car out of the profits.

    Wjen will WDC get it - The existing Site at Cressex works - the problem is they have made deals that they cant back out of the sell the land off for offices that nobody will use and a hotel with the con that they are building a new super sports center - only that is spread out all over the place and is only for about two thirds of the sports covered now."
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Running track plan for Little Marlow on show this week

6:58pm Wednesday 13th June 2012 in News By Jade Coulon

WYCOMBE District Council has said it is confident a running track rejected by Hazlemere campaigners will be embraced by Little Marlow when plans are revealed this week.

Proposals for an athletic track to be built on land adjacent to Westhorpe Farm will be exhibited in Little Marlow this week.

An eight lane track, car park, off-road cycle way, jogging path and hub for aspiring young athletes have all been included in the plans.

Opening up footpaths to access the seven lakes and Spade Oak Lake Nature Reserve are also part of the £1.5 million proposal.

WDC are confident villagers will back the track as part of a bigger plan to develop a Little Marlow Lakes Country Park - a proposal applauded by villagers.

Charles Brocklehurst, Major Projects & Estates Executive at WDC, said: "There are obvious concerns about floodlighting, noise, safety of access and whether it’s a precedent for other things to follow but we’re hopeful people will see the benefits of opening the area up to the local community.

"I think it should be seen in the context of the overall country park vision, not just as something that we’re dropping on Little Marlow but something that gives them a new sporting facility and a starting point for what they want to achieve there as a leisure destination."

Despite the site sitting on greenbelt land, Mr Brocklehurst is confident the environmental impact will be minimal with an old barn being converted to accommodate track facilities. He said: "It’s a pretty scrubby site at the moment, its landfill with a pretty poor topping so it’s not full of newts and badgers, it’s like a dessert really. We don’t think there is an environmental impact and we don’t think it’s contrary to green belt."

The track needs to be moved as part of a multi-million pound plan to redevelop Handy Cross Sports Centre with the Little Marlow site suggested by the Wycombe Phoenix Harriers and Bucks Speed Demons.

The exhibition will be open to the public on Thursday between 4pm and 8pm and Friday between 12 noon and 5pm at the King’s Head function room in Little Marlow.

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