PEOPLE from Hazlemere are being urged to go along to a public meeting at the former Cedars School to hear about plans to use the building for the community.

Local Tory district and parish councillor, Les Taylor, who is determined get community facilities rather than an old people's home built on site, is organising the meeting on Friday at 8pm.

Buckinghamshire County Council wants to move people living in Katharine Knapp old people's home in Tylers Green into a new building. It thinks the Cedars site, which it owns, would be suitable.

But the council has also had an offer for the site from Ashley House Interbuild, which wants to redevelop Cedars with a doctors' surgery to replace Hazlemere surgery, which is too small and has no parking space for patients.

There could also be a chiropractic clinic, a creche, an old people's day centre, something for young people and a replacement centre for the Meals on Wheel service of the WRVS.

Cllr Taylor is convinced the county council won't go along with the community scheme, because it can get more by selling to English Churches Housing Group, which would build the old people's home.

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