A man wanting to build a new home in a reservoir, complete with an underground car lift, has been given planning permission.

This is just one of the many applications considered by Buckinghamshire Council during the past seven days.

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

New home, former Hedgerley Reservoir, Green Road, Hedgerley (PL/23/2993/FA)

Mr Seamus Henry has been given permission to build a ‘modest’ three-bedroom house within the concrete structure of the former body of water, which is covered over with grass.

The house was reduced from six bedrooms and from two stories to a single level following pre-application advice from the council.

The external façade of the reservoir will be retained under the plans, with no openings or windows proposed, apart from a single entrance door.

A defunct pumping station building to the front of the reservoir will also be kept and used as a garden store to maintain the surrounding area.

Two underground parking spaces are to be provided, which will be accessed via a new car lift system with a grass roof to ‘conceal its location’.

Floorplans for the modern home show a pond, patio, front garden and another garden for growing fruit and vegetables.

New homes, land at rear of former ‘Landrecies’, off Fulmer Lane, Gerrards Cross (PL/24/2545/OA)

Ms Sophie Brewster has been refused permission for her plan to build four new detached homes near the M25.

Her application for the new houses said they ‘match exactly the size and form of the adjacent Phoenix Court’, with the four homes proposed ‘designed to mirror the designs, height and density’.

However, planning officers said the proposed development constituted ‘inappropriate development within the green belt, which by definition is harmful’.

They added: “The neighbouring properties within Phoenix Close, namely numbers 3 and 4, would be adversely impacted upon by the proposed development by virtue of a loss of privacy and the proposed development appearing over dominant and obtrusive.”

Construction of two storey grounds barn, Wycombe Abbey School, Frances Dove Way, High Wycombe (24/07691/FUL)

The school submitted plans for the structure this week, saying it would be used for storage and maintenance, office space and a staff social area.

The proposed facilities include a working yard with a wash-down area, decontamination showers for staff who are exposed to harmful materials and a central hub for grounds maintenance.

The school’s plans read: “Existing grounds storage is fragmented and does not provide adequate shelter for storage of materials. Wycombe Abbey also lacks grounds team facilities on site that could accommodate teams’ need for an office space, showers, toilets, lockers, and communal area.”