Attempt to save Aylesbury green space fails
Published Date:
08 October 2008
Senior Reporter
AN ATTEMPT to stop land in Aylesbury being concreted over to make way for a new shopping centre has failed.
The Aylesbury Society was applying to turn the land in Exchange Street into an official town green- which would have thwarted controversial plans to build the Debenhams department store and other shops on it, as part of Warner Estate's Waterside Shopping scheme.
In order to make the land untouchable for developers, the Aylesbury Society needed to prove that the land had been used for sports and past-times for 20 years by locals, and that this use had been 'as of right.'
But on Wednesday Buckinghamshire County Council's Rights of Way Committee refused their application because it failed to satisfy the required criteria.
Roger King, honorary secretary of the Aylesbury Society, said afterwards: "We are very disappointed.
"It looks like the end of one of the last pieces of green space in the town centre."
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Last Updated:
08 October 2008 6:01 PM
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