Plans to build dozens of new homes in a High Wycombe field could go ahead – but only after highway works take place.

Bucks Council is due to consider its plans relating to a 1.8-hectare triangular parcel of land “currently used for horse grazing”, off Horns Lane.

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

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

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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. Bucks Council is “prepared to provide a policy compliant level of affordable housing”.

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

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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.

But Cllr Majid Hussain said: “I have real concerns about this application. As you probably are aware, there are other dwellings taking place in this area.

“There’s issues with junctions, we are pushed with schools, doctors surgeries [and] all this will lead to more traffic for local residents.”

Cllr Darren Hayday said he “cannot support this application”.

Former Cllr Brian Pearce said: “I strongly object to this proposed development, as it appears to be geared towards financial gain more than an actual housing need.”

He also described the parking as ‘insufficient’, while calling the development “severely overcrowded”.

Great Marlow Parish Council also objected.

“It is considered reasonable to condition that the development of the site does not take place until off-site highway works (including the provision of a footpath to Cressex Road, junction improvements with Cressex Road, installation of lighting columns on a section of Horns Lane and public right of way footpath improvements) take place,” a report states.

The matter will be discussed during a West Bucks Area Planning Committee, on October 12.

The development is recommended for approval, “subject to the completion of a Memorandum of Understanding”.

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