A new 59-acre country park in South Bucks will open next year if all goes to plan, Buckinghamshire Council has said.

The cabinet member for culture and leisure Clive Harriss provided an update on South Bucks Country Park during this last week’s council meeting.

He said: “If everything goes absolutely to plan – we know just how quickly planning works – then we should be open by mid-summer next year. I can’t promise but that is the earliest we’ll be open.”

Cllr Harriss was responding to the councillor for Stoke Poges and Wexham Thomas Hogg asking for an update on the progress at South Bucks Country Park and when it can be expected to open.

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Cllr Hogg said: “Locally, we are looking forward to this park. It will be fantastic once it swings its doors open to all. But we are very, very keen to get it open.”

South Bucks Country Park is planned for the old Lanes Golf Academy near Slough and will include a car park, café, public toilets, a play area and countryside walks.

Cllr Harriss said that most roads around the site of the long-awaited green space had been repaired.

He added: “The machinery had to be removed off site because the weather has been so appalling that it was sinking and couldn’t actually be used. That has put back the date of planting as well.”

The cabinet member also that the planning application for the site had to be resubmitted due to ‘technical issues’.