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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Charlie Smith
MP opposes plan for rural energy storage plantCharlie SmithLocal Democracy Reporting ServicePhil Coomes/BBCThe company behind the proposal said the plant would store excess electricity generated by wind farms and solar farmsAn MP has opposed plans for an electricity storage plant in the countryside the size of 10 football pitches.
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2 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
2 1/1 Right-hand turn bans will be introduced and some double yellow lines removed in a Bucks town, Buckinghamshire Council has said. The traffic restrictions are being brought in on Maxwell Road in Beaconsfield following a council consultation last year and a decision by the leader, which was announced this week.
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2 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
High Wycombe's Guildhall (Image: Bucks Free Press) High Wycombe will see up to £450,000 extra investment after a decision by Buckinghamshire Council. The unitary authority approved the release off the cash from the special expenses reserve of its High Wycombe Town Committee. The extra funding for Wycombe could include £250,000 on the maintenance and improvements of public areas and £40,000 on ‘support for community assets’.
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2 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
A refurbishment at a Grade I listed stately home in Buckinghamshire will help save a historic structure in the estate’s gardens for future generations. Improvements will be made to the Blenheim Pavilion at Cliveden House in Taplow on the bank of the River Thames. Several elements of the garden structure, built in 1727 by Italian architect Giacomo Leoni, are now in in need of repair.
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2 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
Another mum in Buckinghamshire has received a payout for EHCP delays as the council struggles to deal with its backlog of cases. Education, health and care plans (EHCPs) are legal documents created by councils setting out the needs of a child or young person with special educational needs (SEN) in their educational setting. Where a plan is appropriate for a child, a local authority must create it within a strict 20-week timescale.
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2 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
Statkraft UK LTD has proposed an 8.6-hectare electricity storage plant with up to 144 battery block units on agricultural land north of East Claydon Substation. Reacting to the plans, MP Greg Smith said: “Once again, I will be objecting to this in the strongest possible terms.” The Conservative, who represents Mid Buckinghamshire made the comment on the Facebook page of the Claydons Solar Action Group.
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2 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
Bucks nurse has been struck off. File photo (Image: PA) A Buckinghamshire nurse has been struck off the nursing register for sending racist text messages, failing to keep proper records and carrying out a ‘shocking’ procedure on a woman who was constipated. Kevin Adams exhibited ‘deplorable behaviour’ and caused residents of the care home he worked at ‘actual harm’, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) said after a misconduct hearing for the nurse.
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3 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
A trio have been told to clear a piece of land in Amersham’s green belt after it was allegedly used as a 24-hour haulage site. Stephen Charles Keen of Amersham, Teresa Vivienne Keen of Chesham and Kevin Robert Walton of Amersham were all sent enforcement notices to deal with an alleged planning breach at the scaffolding storage yard off Bramble Lane.
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3 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
Plans for a huge data centre in High Wycombe have progressed as Buckinghamshire Council has said it will create a new lease for land at Wycombe Air Park. If approved, new data centre buildings up to 23.5m high would be built in the southern part of the aerodrome off Clay Lane Booker – land previously earmarked for ‘Wycombe Film Studios’.
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3 weeks ago | 
bucksfreepress.co.uk | Charlie Smith
Sunnyside Road, Chesham (Image: Google) A new application for retrospective planning permission has been submitted to Buckinghamshire Council to regularise a loft conversion. Mr Abdul Rashid’s application for 56 and 58 Sunnyside Road, Chesham was published on the council’s planning website this week. The applicant is seeking retrospective permission for a single storey side and rear extension to number 56.
