Daily Archives: August 25, 2013

Bovingdon ‘Fury’

Posted on August 25, 2013
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Armoured car outside Bovingdon Chip shop 2013Rumor has it that Brad Pitt took a break from filming on Bovingdon Airfield to get some chips from our local fish and chip shop. (ok, its not really a Sherman Tank).
He has been seen practicing as an American tank commander for a film called Fury – the name of the tank – being filmed on the airfield.  Also stars Shia LeBeouf as one of his crew members.

‘They find themselves behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany (being constructed on the airfield) in April 1945, when the war is coming to its end’.

Due for release 2014.

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Caravan site in Bovingdon

Posted on August 25, 2013
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How many have read this planning application as published in The Hemel Gazette this week? Zoom in, and hidden under application 01185/13/lbc (somebody changing their staircase) is

As reported locally -

Not too many I suspect. It reads as:

Planning Application: 4/01343/13/Ful Go search this application, the link may not work because you need to agree to terms and conditions.

Change Of Use Of Land To Use As A Residential Caravan Site For 8 Gypsy Families, Each With Two Caravans And A Utility Building, Including The Laying Of Hard standing, Land West Of Bobsleigh Hotel, Hempstead Road, Bovingdon. Exactly where? Here is a proposal from 5 years ago:

The Scott Wilson report puts the site on Bovingdon Airfield (voted top site) adjacent to Chesham Road with access via Molyneux Avenue, first left, where the Banger racing used to be and the control tower. However its planned to be in the field right (facing) of the Bobsleigh.

Please login to the Dacorum Planning Portal and verify and comment on this proposed plan.

 

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