Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of the Open Spaces Society, said: “The Open Spaces Society is notified of all such applications and objected, arguing that there was already a vehicular access to the centre and no need for two separate routes creating a one-way system.
PICTURED: The parish centre site. Picture: Alison Bailey “The common is owned by Chesham Bois Parish Council which did not comment.” After Bucks Council refused planning permission for the new parish centre in January, the Parochial Church Council withdrew its application for works on common land. Ms Ashbrook said the Commons Act process is not a public one and that objections and decisions are not published, but the Planning Inspectorate, who runs the process, wrote to the society to tell them the application had been withdrawn.