QBD 19 January 1988. A challenge under Town and Country Planning Act 1971 s244 to the Chesham Town Centre and Waterside local plan adopted by the council in April 1987. Environmental proposals identified a wedge of open land close to the town centre as invaluable and it was widely publicised that this area would be protected from development likely to prejudice its use as an open space. The applicant`s (R) property, in this wedge of land, had the benefit of consent for gravel extraction granted in 1955. The 1981 draft of the plan required landscaping and restoration of the area following extraction. Plan modifications were published in 1986, by which time extraction had started and a restoration scheme had been approved, which made it the council`s intention to buy the land and bring it within the open space. R objected as he wished to develop the land himself. This was overruled. It was held that there was nothing in the idea that the policy did not reflect the real and true intenti