High Wycombe Student housing plans deferred
A decision on creating new homes for 43 students in High Wycombe has been put on hold after councillors were split over a planning application.
The houses currently at the site have been empty since 1987 after being made the subject of compulsory purchase orders by Buckinghamshire County Council to make way for a dual carriageway, but the plans never came to fruition.
And some members of the planning committee attacked a perceived council policy of favouring flats or homes of multiple occupancy over family homes …