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A Prime Development Opportunity in Buckinghamshire RAF Daws Hill High Wycombe Potential for a substantial Residential led Mixed-Use Development subject to the necessary consents Freehold for sale by informal tender Approximately 24 hectares (60 acres) The site can be divided into three areas. At the entrance The site to the site there is an area of low density housing, called RAF Daws Hill is a prime development opportunity in the Doolittle Estate, built approximately 12 years ago High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The 24 Hectare (60 for American visiting forces. Beyond this is the technical acres) site has the potential for Residential led Mixed area of the site which is characterised by buildings of a Use development subject to gaining the necessary larger scale, including workshops, offices, school and planning consents. dormitory buildings. To the east of the technical site is another housing area known as the Eaker Estate. Tennis courts are also on this part of the site. LOCATION The site is situated approximately a mile to the south of Town and Country High Wycombe town centre, which has direct rail links to London Paddington. Junction 4 of the M40 motorway is Planning situated about half a mile south west of the site, providing road links to both London and Birmingham. The Local Planning Authority is Wycombe District Council. The Wycombe Development Framework Core Strategy was The area to the west of the site is characterised by adopted in July 2008 and is the first Development Plan residential development comprising mostly semi- Document (DPD) to be adopted as part of the Wycombe detached and detached family dwellings. There is also Development Framework. The Core Strategy sets out the a mixture of larger detached houses with substantial vision and spatial strategy for the District up to 2026 – gardens located on Daws Hill Lane. the same time horizon as the District’s Community Plan and the South East Plan. The overall strategy has a focus The area of land to the north of the site is heavily wooded on the re-use of previously developed land, with High and is under the ownership of Wycombe Abbey School. Wycombe acting as a regional hub and principal focus for Beyond this is Warren Wood Drive, a cul de sac of flats and development. houses. RAF Daws Hill is a brownfield site within the main urban The land to the east of RAF Daws Hill comprises playing area of High Wycombe and is identified in the Core fields, wooded areas and agricultural land. The Strategy as a major redevelopment site within a ‘key area M40 motorway is to the south of the site with further of change’, namely the ‘M40 Gateway Area of Change’. agricultural land beyond. In the interest of co-ordinated planning for this area, the District Council commissioned independent consultants in DESCRIPTION 2008 to prepare a planning and infrastructure framework to inform work on the Delivery and Site Allocations DPD RAF Daws Hill comprises approximately 24 hectares and, more specifically, future development proposals (60 acres) and is located within the settlement of for RAF Daws Hill and the adjacent ‘Abbey Barn’ sites High Wycombe and within the administrative area of (Abbey Barn South and North); the Abbey Barn sites are Wycombe District Council. The site boundaries adjoin greenfield sites identified in the Core Strategy as ‘reserve Daws Hill Lane to the west, Wycombe Abbey School to locations for future development’ that may be allocated, the north and agricultural and amenity land owned by as and when necessary, to achieve a secure supply of land Carrington Estates to the east. to meet the development needs of the District. The planning and infrastructure framework document was published in August 2009 and included a VAT recommendation that the RAF Daws Hill site should All offers to be exclusive of VAT. be considered as the first phase of a comprehensive development with Abbey Barn South. This comprehensive development scenario has been consulted on in two Technical Information Updates of the Delivery and Site Allocations DPD. In the most recent DPD Update (June 2010), the District Council Pack Contents explores the merits of a comprehensive approach to the development of RAF Daws Hill and Abbey Barn South, but A full technical pack of information can be purchased from the does not commit itself to a comprehensive scheme. Vendor’s agents, GVA and will contain the following:
In light of the Government reforms to the planning system, • Legal Information the Council is currently considering future changes to • Planning Policy Report the District’s housing targets and within this context • Transport Overview Report how to progress its LDF, including the Delivery and Site • Transport Proposals Report Allocations (DSA) document. Officers have recommended • Transport Update Report to the Council’s Cabinet that those areas of the DSA • Traffic Mitigation Options Report 2 affected by strategic housing targets issues (e.g. release of • Services Report greenfield sites) are not progressed further until a review • Preliminary Tree Survey of housing need in the District is progressed. A decision • Water Resources & Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment on the way forward is anticipated early in 2011. • Topographical Survey • Land Quality Assessment Within this policy context, the Council is likely to look • Geotechnical Desk Study favourably on proposals for a housing-led redevelopment • Landscape and Visual Report of RAF Daws Hill which does not prejudice the opportunity • Asbestos Survey and Management Plan for the adjacent Abbey Barn South to be developed at a • Cultural Heritage Report later stage and which provides positive opportunities for • Noise Survey integration. • Ecology Report • Air Quality Report More detail of the planning policy context for the site is • Information on Existing Buildings included in the Information Pack. Entec’s planners are also available for further discussion; please contact either To receive a technical information pack please send a cheque Angus Martin or Michael O’Connell on 01926-439000. payable to GVA Grimley for £50 marked for the attention of Barney Hillsdon. Basis of Sale Unconditional offers are invited for the whole site on an informal tender basis. Location Plan
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