Buckinghamshire Council has rejected plans to build 38 new homes on the site of a farm in Chalfont St Giles.
D. Croft Transport Ltd put forward an application in January last year to convert what is currently the Shire Centre and Equine Clinic at Model Farm on Gorelands Lane into 20 new dwellings.
The development also would have seen several existing buildings demolished and the creation of an apartment building consisting of 18 flats. Fourteen of the 38 new residential dwellings would have been affordable homes.
The application also included landscaping and plans for 82 parking spaces for electric vehicles.
A similar application for the same site, also from D. Croft Transport Ltd, had previously been rejected.
The new proposal has also been rejected by the council’s Planning Committee.
In the decision notice, they stated: “The location of the site is such that it has only limited access by non-car modes of travel. The absence of adequate infrastructure and the remoteness of the site from built-up areas is such that it is likely to be heavily reliant on the use of the private car, resulting in an unsustainable development.”
They also stated that the application did not have enough affordable housing and that the proposed dwellings were too small, with the site not being large enough to provide satisfactory living conditions.
It is currently unknown if an appeal against the rejection will be lodged.
The agent for D. Croft Transport Ltd, Tom Breislin of Urbana Town Planning, has been contacted for comment.
Picture credit D Croft Transport
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