A former pub that became a string of restaurants and later a car show room is finally being demolished to make way for new homes.

The former Rose and Crown pub, at 144 Wycombe Lane in Wooburn Green, which was most recently a luxury car show room, is being bulldozed in favour of seven houses.

The building has been empty since Top Gear Motors relocated to Rayners Lane in West London.

As well as seven new family homes, developers Fulmer Developments have promised to plant new hedges and trees - meaning 40 per cent of the site will go from hard-standing to soft landscaping - private gardens and car and cycle parking.

The new homes will also be set much further back from the road, which they say will be a "positive enhancement" to the area's character.

The site has had an interesting planning history. It was known as The Rose and Crown pub until around 2004, before becoming The Glory Mill.

It was then turned into a string of restaurants and a shisha lounge.

Plans to turn it into a pair of four-bed semi-detached homes in 2013, a temporary hand car wash in 2014 and a block of 14 flats in 2017 were all refused.

In 2015, plans to turn it from an Indian restaurant into the car show room were initially refused, but were allowed to go ahead on appeal.

In planning documents for the most recent application - which was permitted - to turn it into the family homes, developers say the site is "simply not suitable" for any sort of employment site, saying "consistent failings" of former businesses there has proved that.

However, many residents living nearby were not happy with the plans, citing parking issues in the village.