Beaconsfield Golf Club withdraws new restaurant plans

This is just one of the many applications submitted to Buckinghamshire Council in the past seven days.

To view more details for each application, go to the council’s planning portal with the reference number attached.

A former pub site won’t see new flats built at Copthall Lane, Chalfont St Peter (PL/21/1024/FA).

The former Waggon & Horses pub, which is now demolished (Image: Google Maps)

The applicant, Ekrem Mahmutaj, wanted to build six apartments on the land where the Waggon and Horses pub used to stand.

The proposal includes three two-beds and three one-bedroom flats with seven car parking spaces.

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Three of the first and second-floor flats will have balconies that are 3.8sqm each and all units will have access to amenity space at the rear and east side.
The ground floor level is proposed to be the same as the previous pub and the raised rear patio area is to be retained and extended to form the amenity space.

It also proposed a biodiversity net gain via two bat tubes built into the walls.
But planning officers refused the scheme, believing there was a lack of information to prove that there are no protected bats roosting at the site and the flats are ‘substandard’.

A golf club withdraws plans to build a new restaurant at Farm Lane, Jordans (PL/22/0561/FA).

Internal CGI of proposed first-floor function room (Image: Beaconsfield Golf Club)

Beaconsfield Golf Club wanted to create a single-storey extension to the side of its existing clubhouse, which was built in 1914, to provide a new restaurant, entrance lobby, trolley store, and larger ladies’ locker room.

The golf club argued that the refurbished and extended clubhouse will provide modernised facilities that will ‘fully cater’ for the requirements of all members and visitors.

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There are 680 members, which is larger than the facilities were originally intended for, making it feel ‘crowded’ on busy days with the current facilities.

The proposal will provide an additional 15 per cent increase to the total building area. According to the golf club, over 500 members responded to a consultation where over 93 per cent were in favour.

But the plans were withdrawn by the club.

Plans to erect a 5G mast have been refused at Wendover Road, Aylesbury (22/04270/ATN).

Drawing of what the 5G mast could have looked like (Image: CK Hutchinson)

Telecommunications company CK Hutchinson wanted to continue its national rollout of 5G masts to help better connect the UK with faster and stronger broadband.

It proposed to erect the 15m mast with five associated cabinets on the Wendover Street Works. It submitted the scheme under prior approval, which would effectively bypass the planning process to speed up development if the council did not object.

But planning officers denied permission, believing the height and appearance of the mast would result in a ‘dominant, imposing, and incongruous’ feature at the site.