A track on green belt land in Coleshill that illegally attempted to connect New Road to a plot of land has been halted by Buckinghamshire Council.
Councillor for Chalfont St Giles, Carl Jackson, said the “road to nowhere” was built without planning permission on private land. He suggested that one or more owners of the land might be expecting to build a property on the field as well.
When he went to investigate, cllr Jackson was stunned by what he saw.
He told Amersham news: “The materials used for the first layer of the track included builders’ waste, shards of metal, and discarded toilet seats. It’s a mess, and although the new top surface looks better, waste material still leaks from the sides.
“I’ve never seen a case quite like it.”
According to local residents, the person who ordered the construction of the track owns two plots of land in the green belt field. cllr Jackson reported it to the Environment Agency and Buckinghamshire Council’s Planning Enforcement Team, who ordered work to stop and said planning permission would need to be submitted for any new track.
About 25 members of the public people attended the Coleshill Parish Council meeting where the track was discussed on Monday, October 21, which cllr Jackson said is “not a small proportion of the village’s population”.
Whilst Cllr Jackson does not expect the path to be “imminently” removed, he praised the council’s planning enforcement team for their swift response.
At the time of writing, Cllr Jackson was not aware of a planning application having been submitted for the track to be installed.
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