by Chris Malone
Plans for a caravan site in Buckinghamshire have been scrapped after pressure from a local newspaper and residents.
Patrick McDonagh had applied to South Bucks District Council for permission to create pitches for 12 mobile homes and 12 tourers on land close to the expensive residential area of Stoke Wood.
However, a Buckinghamshire Advertiser article drawing attention to the proposals led to him immediately withdrawing the application.
“The application for a change of use of the site to form a caravan park … on land at Stoke Wood, Stoke Poges, the subject of a newspaper article in the Bucks Advertiser on May 27th, was formally withdrawn on May 28th,” the local authority revealed, according to the newspaper.
Residents had reportedly been concerned that any such changes would open the site up to use by travellers and gypsies, with one local telling the newspaper that such people “often bring a lot of trouble”.
Later this month, Buckinghamshire will play host to the Kop Hill Climb centenary celebration, when motorsport enthusiasts are expected to descend on the area in their hundreds.
