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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>South Bucks District Council yesterday approved the full set of Berkeley Homes applications for the development of the Mill Lane site.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This includes the provision of a roundabout access to the A4 rather than the traffic lights. We will lose the horse chestnut trees unfortunately but the developers are to plant mature trees around the new entrance as soon as practical.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The gas holder is agreed to come down and although the application to develop this part of the site is still not submitted, there is confidence that it will stay within the outline submitted earlier for a maximum of 12 houses.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The traffic lights at Berry Hill will be made “more intelligent”? and the road designs include the proposed cycleway and provision for the car transporters that presently unload on the A4 to move round the back of the VW garage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A public toilet will be provided on the site and the sensitive woodland to the north of Dunloe Lodge will be protected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There are conditions attached as to detailed management, including controls on construction work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We will unfortunately lose the willow tree in front of the present Skindles.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Construction is likely to start immediately – demolishing of Skindles and the new roundabout.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roger Worthington Secretary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>07787556309<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:106%'>This mail has been sent to you from the Hitcham and Taplow Society. If has been sent to you in error or you do not wish to receive such communications, please reply to <a href="mailto:secretary@taplowsociety.org.uk"><span style='color:#0563C1'>secretary@taplowsociety.org.uk</span></a> and we will remove you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>