Plans to build dozens of new homes in a High Wycombe field will go ahead.

Bucks Council has approved its plans relating to a triangular parcel of land “currently used for horse grazing”, off Horns Lane.

Reserved Matters, such as appearance, landscaping, scale, layout, and access, will be dealt with at a later stage.

Conservative Cllr David Johncock proposed the motion to approve, seconded by Independent Cllr Stuart Wilson.

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The plans were submitted back in February, after a public consultation reduced initial intentions for 62 homes to under 50.

The application outlines ‘up to 50 residential units, and 106 parking spaces’.

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Indicative plans hint at a potential three one-bed, three two-bed, 33 three-bed, six four-bed, and five five-bed properties, in a mix of houses and flats ranging from two to three storeys.

The site would be required to provide 48 per cent affordable housing.

The scheme will also include a new play park and open space.

The existing access from Horns Lane will be upgraded ‘as the only vehicle access to the development’.

Improvements will be put in at the junction of Horns Lane with Cressex Road, including a “flared exit” from Horns Lane onto Cressex Road and the widening of Cressex Road to provide a right-turn ghost filter lane (for vehicles turning right into Horns Lane).

A new footpath alongside the highway to connect the development with Cressex Road is also proposed.

The site is allocated for development in the adopted Local Plan.

The development is “subject to the completion of a Memorandum of Understanding”.

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