Wycombe Council's planning committee has voted to pour a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers' money into a fighting fund to save the countryside from being carved up by land speculators.

Cllr Hugh McCarthy, cabinet member for planning, says the council is ready to issue compulsory purchase orders if all else fails. "We are determined to act now to protect our countryside and whilst we are keen to negotiate to purchase these sites we will resort to compulsory purchase if necessary."

Tory councillor Paul Rogerson who represents Lacey Green, Speen and the Hampdens says ... "should the council be successful in issuing a compulsory purchase order, the amount they [the plot owners] would receive would be based on agricultural land prices and not development land."

(Via Bucks Free Press. To read the full story, click here)


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