A Luton Airport firm has been given permission to use a vacant Bucks industrial site for storage despite residents slamming the 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.
Aviation firm to use vacant site for storage, former stone merchants, Boundary Road, Loudwater (23/07030/FUL)
The Former Treadway Works can be used for temporary flexible storage for up to six years by the Signature Aviation Limited.
The council approved the company’s application, which also named global banking giant BNP Paribas.
Signature Aviation provides private airport terminals and has a contract with London Luton Airport for services at Terminal 1.
It is unclear what the company wants to store at the Loudwater site, which was previously a stone merchant.
However, several local residents have hit out at the firm’s storage plans over perceived ecological impacts, fears about large vehicles serving the site using nearby roads as a “rat run” and concerns from one woman who said, “users of the site can look onto my garden and into my property”.
Plan for seven apartments refused, 255 West Wycombe Road High Wycombe (23/06135/OUT)
The council has refused Barar Homes permission to demolish existing dwellings and build a block of seven flats, 11 parking spaces and bin/cycle stores.
Planning officers said the proposals were a “dominant and disproportionate form of development that would fail to integrate into its surroundings”.
The council said the proposed three-storey building, which could sleep up to 20 people, would have had an “overbearing impact upon No. 253 West Wycombe Road” and may have disturbed bats, a protected species.
Swimming pool outbuilding and gym refused, 18 Dukes Kiln Drive, Gerrards Cross (PL/23/2736/SA)
The council refused a certificate of lawfulness applied for by Mr and Ms K Malhi, saying the structure did not comply with policy as it would be over three metres high.
Planners said that a “building of this scale would provide an area beyond that reasonably required for the intended uses”.
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