A plan to build 292 homes on a Bucks village's former golf course has moved forward as new details have been revealed.

A proposal for the access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale of the development set for the Northern and Eastern Parcels of the Park Land and Between Lodge Lane and Burtons Lane, Little Chalfont has been submitted to the council.

The green belt village currently has a population of around 7,000, and is predominantly surrounded by open countryside close to the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), including the Chess Valley.

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The proposal states: "The application site is in close proximity to the village centre.

The land in Little Chalfont (Image: Hill/jtp/Planning portal)

"It is privately owned and was formerly used as a golf course, comprising mostly grassland with some existing buildings and areas of mature woodland."

This site has been subject to a fraught planning battle after it was originally refused planning permission by the council in April 2022 due in part to the ‘significantly detrimental’ impacts the plans would have had on the landscape.

Officers said the benefits of the scheme taken together ‘do not clearly outweigh the harm to the Green Belt’.

Some 1,100 individual letters of objection to the plans were also received from the community, along with 110 letters of support.

However, plans to build the 380 new homes were granted permission on appeal by the Planning Inspectorate in March 2023.

The inspector said the benefits of the updated plans presented to him ‘would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the harm’.

He wrote: “The appeal scheme would make a substantial contribution to addressing the authority’s chronic under supply of housing land.”

The land in Little Chalfont (Image: Hill/jtp/Planning portal)

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Now, the developers have revealed plans for estate roads, walking and cycling, parking, refuse, sustainability and drainage in a reserved matters application.

This is currently under consultation, it was validated on Monday, October 27.

The proposal states: "The scheme has been shaped through an extensive period of design development involving close collaboration with a range of key stakeholders.

"At each stage, meetings and workshops have been held to review emerging proposals, test alternative concepts, and identify opportunities for improvement"

It added: "A programme of pre-application meetings with Buckinghamshire Council has played a central role in steering the evolution of the proposals. These meetings typically addressed the scheme as a whole, with a particular focus on the northern and eastern parcels from winter 2024 onwards."

The plans explained that the buildings were designed following research about Amersham Old Town.

Planned homes (Image: Hill/jtp/Planning portal)

It added that the streets will be looped to reduce dead ends.

There is set to be multi-level bike parking, and parking spaces and garages allocated to the homes based on numbers of bedrooms.

There will also be a central green and a public square with 'generous tree planting' and 'strong urban design measures'.

The plan also describes how the houses and apartments set for the land, range from 1-bed flats to 5-bed houses.

There will be, sold 156 privately, 59 in shared ownership and 77 for affordable rent.