A NEW discount supermarket, flats to replace some offices, and a request for four ornamental ponds are just some of the many applications submitted to Bucks Council in the last week.
Here is a selection of just some of the latest plans that the council’s planning officers will now decide.
Householder application for construction of four shallow ornamental ponds, linked together with narrow rills and seating area – 21/06487/FUL
Lyricist and author Sir Tim Rice has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application for his property in Skirmett Road, Hambleden.
Sir Tim, who co-wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber, is seeking permission for a series of four shallow ornamental ponds, linked together with narrow rills, situated within an existing avenue of pleached lime trees.
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The pools are to be edged with natural Yorkstone paving and framed with planting, according to council documents.
A Yorkstone-paved seating area at the end of the pools gives views back towards the house, it adds.
Change of use of ground floor offices to 3 x one-bedroom studio apartments – 21/06482/FUL
PICTURED: Centre Parade, Place Farm Way, Monks Risborough.
Mr Craig Gray of Christine Homes has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application for 1 Centre Parade, Place Farm Way, Monks Risborough.
Plans include the conversion of some currently vacant offices to three self-contained apartments, all around 39 sqm in size, and all of which are destined for the ‘housing market’.
Four existing parking spaces will be retained.
Demolition of existing outbuildings and erection of detached bungalow – PL/21/1782/FA
Mr J Moncrieff has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application for Fox Meadow Cottage, on Grove Lane, in Ashley Green.
The new property will be a simple, single-storey bungalow with two bedrooms, a study, two bathrooms, a kitchen and one living room.
Six existing parking spaces will be retained.
Construction of three-storey building comprising an office at ground floor level and two residential flats above – PL/21/1797/FA
PICTURED: The site on Berkhampstead Road, in Chesham.
Mr Michael Trodd has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application for an empty plot on Berkhampstead Road, in Chesham.
Plans detail the construction of a three-storey building with an office at ground floor level and two one-bed flats above.
The unoccupied plot once housed a ‘building for public convenience’ used since the 1950s, but was vandalised multiple times before closing in 2001 and finally being recently demolished.
Demolition of existing buildings, and erection of a foodstore with servicing, access, car parking and landscaping – PL/21/1309/FA
Mr Sam Sheppard has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application on behalf of Aldi Stores Limited for the former Lookers Jaguar site, on London Road West, in Amersham.
More than 540 people support the idea of having a new Aldi supermarket.
If successful, Aldi intends to build and open the supermarket in 2023.
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