Plans to build 30 homes on Green Belt land in Iver to be decided

This is just one of the many applications submitted to Buckinghamshire Council for determination 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 caravan park applies for the static caravans to be residential at Amerden Lane, Taplow (PL/23/1306/ZA).

Birds' eye view of the caravan park (Image: Google Maps)

Amerden caravan park has requested a certificate of appropriate alternative development on its land, which seeks a development decision from the council on land that has been compulsorily acquired.

In this case, National Highways Ltd purchased part of the caravan park’s land in order to upgrade the adjoining section of the M4 motorway in order to allow for it to become a ‘smart motorway’, which was completed in December 2022.

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The applicant seeks to set out that an application for the use of the caravan park for the use of the static caravans for residential purposes would have been granted permission by the local planning authority on the basis that there would have not been any additional impact on the Green Belt than the extant use of the site.

Bucks planning officers are yet to determine the park’s request.

Outline plans to build 30 homes to be decided next week at Fourells Paddocks, Richings Way, Iver (PL/22/2678/OA).

Layout of the 30 homes in Iver (Image: ,)

The South Buckinghamshire Area Planning Committee is to decide on applicant ‘Mr Hundal’s’ application to build a mixture of one to five-bedroom properties as well as public open space.

It only seeks if the council agrees with the development in principle as well as access to the site where further detailed planning applications will be submitted and decided at a later stage.

Forty per cent of the homes are proposed to be affordable – with first homes to help young people get on the property ladder as well as two self-build plots for prospective homeowners to design their own homes.

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The affordable mix includes three first homes, seven at affordable rent, and two shared ownerships.

Because the homes are proposed to be built within the Green Belt, it has been a subject of controversy among residents, which led to the application being ‘called in’ by three Iver councillors for it to be debated at the panel.

One objector wrote: “If this proposed development was to go ahead, the rural feel to the area will be destroyed. We would be subjected to noise, fumes from cards using the access road day and night, light pollution as well as general noise and disturbance generated by the new residents.”

The plans will be decided on Tuesday, May 2.

Plans to build nearly 10 homes have been given the nod at High Street, Iver (PL/22/1096/FA).

A drawing of what the nine dwellings could look like (Image: ,)

Plots 66, 68, 70, and 72 on the High Street are set to be demolished to make for four flats and five homes, which will have nine parking bays.

The housing mix includes two studios, two one-beds, two two-beds, and three three-bedroom properties.

The ‘Georgian’ building is proposed to be three-storeys in height and is ‘bracketed’ with a two-storey volume built in a ‘different, more cottagey style’ to the east and to the west to reduce its visual impact on the street scene.

Planning officers approved the plans.