you can be sure the students will be parking all over the place and outside your door, the parking issue has not been addressed and the council just dont seem to care about the impact on residents of this monstrosity thats probably because none of them live in the district!

Why should someone living in Downley have such an opinion -unless she doesn't know what suburb she lives in!

Stick all in a big building together so I know where to find the little sihts next time my car gets vandalised.

Elmo wrote:
Stick all in a big building together so I know where to find the little sihts next time my car gets vandalised.

elmo - how do you know its students doing this?

Pierre wrote:
Why should someone living in Downley have such an opinion -unless she doesn't know what suburb she lives in!

if she lives in the area why shouldnt she have an opinion? what a strange thing to say

smokey wrote:

Elmo wrote: Stick all in a big building together so I know where to find the little sihts next time my car gets vandalised.

elmo - how do you know its students doing this?

The traces of hair gell the cnuts leave behind.

Pierre

I hope my living no more than 500 yards from the site meets with your approval for "such an opinion" and for as long as I have lived there(14 years) it has been known as Downley!

Thanks anyway for your invaluable input to this debate!!

33 parking spaces plus an onsite taxi rank.

Hang on, taxi ranks and parking? What happened to walking?

Let's apply some rationale to this issue. The proposal for student accommodation will not only affect the residents in the immediate area of the 'proposed' site but potentially the whole of Wycombe.

I would recommend that all interested parties review the Wycombe.gov Planning and Buildings website and see what comments and/or recommendations have been made by various authorities and, to date, remain unresolved and/or unanswered. The planning reference number being 07/07566/FUL.

Some examples are as follows:-

a) An email detailing concerns by Thames Valley Police dated 13/11/07 does not appear to have been responded to. This development, without the proper controls in place will attract criminality i.e. theft, vandalism etc.
Thames Valley Police comments related to the applicants Design and Access statement which should detail how crime prevention measures have been considered.Their observations were :- Access control- non mentioned.
No mention of about security for each students room - No security will give licence to thievery etc.
Transport Assessment - No mention of managing students and their possessions being dropped off or picked up at the beginning or end of term. This will result in roAds being blocked up, to the annoyance of others.
Defensible space to accommodation blocks - with a public footpath going through the middle of the site, how is it proposed that offenders will be prevented from accessing residential blocks?

b) In an email dated 7/11/07 Thames Water made the following statement ' Following initial investigation, Thames Water has identified an inability of the existing waste water infrastructure to accommodate the needs of this application'. 'The development may lead to sewage flooding'.

c)Memo from Head of Environmental Services for the attention of Mr Richard White dated 18/02/08, to summarise concludes :- There is a potential for contaminated land from the current/previous use on the site. A phased risk assessment and full site investigation will need to be carried out followed by remediation measures where appropriate.
Construction work shall not begin until a scheme for protecting the development from the proposed industrial units on an adjacent site has been submitted to and approved in writing etc.etc. - WHAT ABOUT THE RESIDENTS OF THE SURROUNDING AREAS?

d) Parking - enough said except for the fact that the council tax payers of High Wycombe will be expected to police the 'misdemeanours' of students and their relatives. Once we've reported breaches in the parking controls, will the matter be dealt with in a timeous manner? I think not.

e) CHP - Whats this all about? Whoever thought that a combined heat and power system could work on a development this size lives in cloud cuckoo land. Where are the results of a feasibility study? The individuals who suggested the scheme could possibly work are only paying lipservice to the concept and trying to score ecological green 'brownie' points.

Finally, as a resident of Telford Way I do not wish to look out of my front room window and see buildings in excess of 23 metres (74 ft) in front of my home. I much prefer the uninterrupted view, I currently enjoy, across the valley.

I also hope that once the buildings have been erected nobody says 'I wish I'd objected to the development when I had the chance'.

THE CHANCE STILL EXISTS AS LONG AS WE STAND FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE IS RIGHT AND NOT SUCCUMB TO THE IMPOSED DEMANDS OF THE COUNCIL AND UNIVERSITY.

Resident, the ignorance of people around here amazes me they will probably just slag you off and call it NIMBYism, im sorry that you will have this monstrosity on your doorstep

what the hell do we expect when its rural Tory councillors making thge decisions for Town residents.
Bring on a Towm Council that represents local residents

it is blatantly obvious that a council capable of visiting the monstrous Eden Centre on the town is capable of anyform of architectural and environmental vandalism. this is yet another example.