Winslow Green

Latest update Spring 2011

Greenway Land LLP’s planning application to build a new town on the site of the former wartime airfield between Winslow, Great Horwood and Little Horwood was turned down by Aylesbury Vale District Council at a meeting of the Strategic Development Control Committee on 1st April 2009.

The plans for the new town, ‘Winslow Green’, which would have at least 3,300 houses, 68,000 m2 of office space, shops and a supermarket, were rejected unanimously by the Committee.
In the 12 weeks following the application AVDC received 1,000 letters of objection from members of the public, representing more than 1,100 signatories. The local MP, Mr John Bercow also objected. In addition to the 1,000 letters from the public, objections were received from more than 20 organisations including; every Town and Parish Council in North Buckinghamshire; Bucks County Council; Milton Keynes Partnership; South East England Regional Assembly; Anglian Water; The Environment Agency; CABE and National Rail and the EastWest Rail Consortium who objected to Greenway’s proposed location for a new railway station.
The developers have known all along that their planning application was likely to be turned down given that Aylesbury Vale District Council and the South East Regional Planners had both rejected their previous, similar, submissions for the site. 

We learnt in the Summer of 2009 that Fox Land and Property, Greenway Land LLP’s owners, had decided not to appeal against AVDC’s decision to refuse planning permission.  Any appeal would have automatically triggered a public enquiry due to the scale of the development which would have been very costly for all involved. 

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