A Hazlemere woman was left in shock after she came home to see her garden fenced off by rotting bales of hay.

Susan Jamson’s garden backs onto the plot of land which is set to accommodate a new housing development in the village.

The concerned resident runs a Facebook group for communities in Holmer Green, Hazlemere and surrounding areas to share their views on planning, development and required infrastructure.

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The 71-year-old has lived on Kestral Drive, which backs onto Tralee Farm, since 1986 and says she has “no fight” with the landowner.

She said: “When I came home and sat in the conservatory I saw it.

“I went to look at it because I thought what an earth is it and then realised it was very wet, very smelly, very old bales of hay.

“It smelt and it is really moldy. They are not new, pleasant bales of hay. I didn’t know what to do. I cried. I thought how can somebody do that.

“It’s got mold spores and it is really dangerous. We want it moved, if you have hay that is old and wet inside but then dries it is also combustible."

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Susan is especially worried as she herself is anaphylactic and her daughter has Down’s syndrome and suffers from bad lung problems.

She continued: “As soon as my daughter got covid we had to go to Stoke Mandeville so she could have anti-virals.

“She can't go out there, I would never let her go out there.

“At the moment it doesn’t matter because it is winter.

“I am anaphylactic, two years ago after bringing my washing in and my face swelled and I had to rush to the hospital.

“It was something with the hay that made my face swell, I now have EpiPens.”

After buying the plot of land around 10 years to extend their garden, a gate was installed to allow them to cut the field where the tractor could no longer reach.

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However, Susan believes the landowner has aggrievances about the gate.

She said: “I don't have any reason to go onto his land. 

“He said because we are on a corner when tractor cuts to the field they can’t get to the edge so we have a gate so we can cut where they can’t get to.

“We have done it forever, we don’t go in the field otherwise.

“We have told him to come and padlock it and do whatever he wants but take away these silly bales of hay.”

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Talking about the development, Susan said “Nobody has got any fight with him because it is his land, he can do what he likes with it and he wants to sell it.

“I understand that it is probably going to go ahead but it can be mitigated and it can be not as awful.”

“They can make it so it doesn’t look like army barracks, they can put green spaces around.

“We certainly want a buffer, we don’t want it on our fence.

“They can do it so it actually fits into our village rather changing out villages and creates urban sprawl and we will become a suburb of Wycombe.

“He thinks it is only me, it isn’t only me. I promise you it isn’t.

“I don’t know what he can say apart from he came along with apparently a tractor and dumped it along my fence.”

The Bucks Free Press contacted the landowner at Tralee Farm but he declined to comment.