Local Authority

CAMPAIGNERS who are trying to have a patch of woodland reclassified as a village green to protect it from developers say it would be 'a tragedy' if it was ever built on.

Jackie Edington and Robert Leschhorn of South Park Drive, Gerrards Cross are fighting to get a 19-acre patch of woodland between their homes and the A413 reclassified as woodland by Bucks County Council to stop potential developers building homes on it.

A LARGE new extension could soon be built at a prominent Bucks hotel.

The Bull Hotel, in Oxford Road, Gerrards Cross applied for planning permission to South Bucks District Council to build a basement leisure facility, a ground floor function suite and first and second floor bedrooms in 2009.

A SET of traffic lights which have caused traffic problems in a village for more than a year are finally set to be altered to put a stop to the problem after months of delays.

Traffic signals in Packhorse Road in Gerrards Cross which were put in place outside the Tesco supermarket when it opened in November 2010 will be re-synchronised to ease the traffic flow.

Major work is set to be carried out on Packhorse Road next week as part of Bucks County Council's road repair campaign.

The work will be carried out on Monday and Tuesday and will involve replacing the existing surfacing to provide a better surface.

The resurfacing will take place overnight because of the high volume of traffic on the road during the day.

It will mean that the road will be closed between 7pm and 6am each night.

PEOPLE in Buckinghamshire have told the county council that they want to see improvements in roads, economic growth and a focus on tackling crime and anti-social behaviour, a new survey has found.

The council carried out the survey last year and have now released the results of it.

RESIDENTS in South Bucks will be given free advice on health and wellbeing at a special day later this month.

South Bucks District Council is holding the event on February 29 at the Memorial Hall in Gerrards Cross and will by a range of organisations offering a variety of advice and information on a number of different stalls.

This is a list of planning applications registered with South Bucks District Council for Gerrards Cross during the week ended 27th January 2012. Many of these applications will not be heard at Planning Committee, but, rather, will be decided by Officers under the Scheme of Delegation operated by the Council.

THE Olympic torch is set to come to South Bucks following anger that the area was left off the list of original locations it was set to visit on its UK tour.

In October last the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games revealed the route that the torch would take on its route around the UK, which included the far north of Scotland and even the fictional Walford, home of TV soap East Enders.

This is a list of planning applications for Gerrards Cross registered with South Bucks District Council during the week ended 6th January 2012. Many of these applications will not be heard at Planning Committee, but, rather, will be decided by Officers under the Scheme of Delegation operated by the Council.

MOTORISTS in Buckinghamshire are being encouraged to slow down in 2012.

Bucks County Council has launched a new campaign highlighting the dangers of driving too quickly, and is running it throughout January.