Buckinghamshire Council’s Strategic Sites Committee has green-lit Extra MSA Group’s proposals for land between junctions 16 (M40) and 17 (Rickmansworth/Maple Cross) of the M25. An illustrative masterplan showing the proposed motorway service area beside the M25 near Chalfont St Peter. Rachel Marber, the council’s strategic technical lead, told the committee that the site is in a designated green belt area but now considered to be grey belt under legal definitions. “This application to develop a motorway service station on our green belt has come before and it keeps being rejected.” However, Sebastian Tibenham, the applicant’s agent, said motorway service areas were important pieces of transport infrastructure that provided rest and parking facilities.