How to Blow Three Quarters of a Million Quid!!!!

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In November 2016, South Bucks District Council submitted a planning application to build a five and a half storey car park with a capacity of 443 cars in Station Road Gerrards Cross opposite Waitrose.

This was withdrawn by SBDC in August 2017 

What the Council hasn’t been keen for us to know is that the first planning 
application was withdrawn by them because the Highways Agency recommended 
‘reject application’. This was probably because the additional traffic load 
on the already congested roads in and around GX was unacceptable.

However their new revised plans show that the size of the proposed 
car park (application yet to be submitted) still 
seeks to provide 443 spaces. So presumably the HA’s recommendation will still be 
valid.
In addition I can see no evidence that 
SBDC has commissioned a Pollution Impact assessment in any of their 
investigations. 
The real headline however is the £780,000 
already spent by SBDC with nothing but a withdrawn Planning Application to show 
for it!

Edited by Ralph - 05 June 2018 at 12:36pm

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Ralph Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Villager Joined: 28 February 2007 Status: Offline Points: 161	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ralph Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: How to Blow Three Quarters of a Million Quid!!!! Posted: 05 June 2018 at 12:35pm
	In November 2016, South Bucks District Council submitted a planning application to build a five and a half storey car park with a capacity of 443 cars in Station Road Gerrards Cross opposite Waitrose. This was withdrawn by SBDC in August 2017 What the Council hasn’t been keen for us to know is that the first planning application was withdrawn by them because the Highways Agency recommended ‘reject application’. This was probably because the additional traffic load on the already congested roads in and around GX was unacceptable. However their new revised plans show that the size of the proposed car park (application yet to be submitted) still seeks to provide 443 spaces. So presumably the HA’s recommendation will still be valid. In addition I can see no evidence that SBDC has commissioned a Pollution Impact assessment in any of their investigations. The real headline however is the £780,000 already spent by SBDC with nothing but a withdrawn Planning Application to show for it! Edited by Ralph - 05 June 2018 at 12:36pm

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MV Owner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chalfontonian Joined: 09 January 2011 Location: Over the George Status: Offline Points: 1029	Post Options Post Reply Quote MV Owner Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 June 2018 at 9:40pm
	Inappopriate or poor decision making at the expense of the tax payer is absolutely rife in the Public Sector

watsy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chalfont Admin Joined: 11 January 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1426	Post Options Post Reply Quote watsy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 June 2018 at 12:36pm
	Chiltern District planning councillors cost the hockey club around £100k when we went for planning permission for a full size astro / clubhouse behind Amersham College and School. The CDC chief executive had told us yes that is the best place for it in the district. Fortunately the bemused planning appeals officer approved it and club is now thriving - does that count to this conversation?

Mal Content Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newcomer Joined: 24 October 2016 Location: Chal St. Peter Status: Offline Points: 36	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mal Content Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 June 2018 at 8:17pm
	I am afraid that the writers of the previous comments may well be suffering from what those in public service would like to call Little Englander altered perception, or as we would call it ‘exposure to real life.’ I had the advanced misfortune to be employed by a London Borough Council, lasting only eighteen months before the scale of the incompetence and corruption ground me down. There is no penalty for failure and no real oversight of the witless decisions made. There was self-serving to an exceptional degree with no effective redress for substandard service. Take a drive along the A40 in Tatling End and look at the decaying closed police station. In its haste to abandon the public, Thames Valley Police shut the station before it was sold, with the good old taxpayer stumping up to keep an empty building supplied with electricity and water. The site was eventually purchased by SBDC for an undisclosed sum, with the actual price (somewhere in the millions) kept very quiet. Please note that all details of the sale and purchase of these public buildings are not disclosed to the very people paying for them, i.e. the taxpayer. There is a submerged fuel tank in the back yard of the police station that inhibits building and needs to be removed before the site can be put to good use. The drains leak into the private farm next door polluting the land. Again kept very quiet and the defects will be put right using the taxes paid by you and I. Until then, the multi million pound building rots. Those in public service have no idea of what it is like in the real world where redundancy, relocation, downsizing and business failure are real threats to livelihood, family life and general wellbeing. Expect your Local Authority and public services to be useless and you will be disappointed rarely.
	Floreat

MV Owner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chalfontonian Joined: 09 January 2011 Location: Over the George Status: Offline Points: 1029	Post Options Post Reply Quote MV Owner Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 June 2018 at 10:06pm
	I have worked in both the public and private sectors and pretty much agree with most of what you have said

allotmentman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newcomer Joined: 22 February 2017 Location: CSP Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote allotmentman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 June 2018 at 4:44pm
	Don't forget the NHS/prison reform building up at the NSE. I get confused who actually owns it or rented it as it has been so long ago. fortune to get it up and running and then only for a couple of years. How long has it now been empty and borded up now 10 or 15 years !!

watsy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chalfont Admin Joined: 11 January 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1426	Post Options Post Reply Quote watsy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 June 2018 at 10:58pm
	I was going to mention that too. An old thread below! https://www.chalfontstpeter.com/forum/debenham-house_topic2654.html This is a photo from the other day I was going to post - completely overgrown. I heard (though not sure if true) the NSE had sorted a deal with Oxfordshire Health Authority, but National Audit Office said it wasn't a good enough deal - so the building is just rented out and rotting. Is it also true (speaking of waste / shocking decisions) that the thriving Chalfont Saints Football club is under threat as the grounds they rent from the NSE have been re designated as brown field and thus development potential.