TESCO still hope to move into Bourne End despite being knocked back twice last month.

The supermarket had a planning application for a Tesco Express and eight flats, and an application for a store and six flats, rejected by Wycombe District Council on January 30.

But it remains determined to build an Express store on the old Police house site in The Parade, Bourne End and has submitted a new planning application.

Tesco has reduced the number of flats it plans to build in a bid to get the green light from planning bosses.

Juliette Bishop, spokesman for Tesco, said: "We have reviewed our plans following the comments made during the previous planning decision, and we feel that we've addressed the issues identified.

"Most importantly we have taken on board the concerns about the scale and density of the proposed building and reduced the number of residential units planned.

"We have submitted a new planning application which reflects these changes."

The proposed building would still be 2.5 storeys high and consist of two, two-bedroom flats.

But it will now only have two, one-bedroom flats, rather than the four on the previous application.

The first two applications were rejected unanimously by the Development Control Committee at WDC on a number of different grounds, including being too large for the surrounding buildings and having a lack of parking and amenity space.

But Tesco believe it has addressed the issues raised.

It has increased parking to seven spaces, despite reducing the flats to four and the supermarket believes the reduction in homes also addresses fears over the size of the building.