Editing Pinewood Studios (section)

== Project Pinewood ==
In November 2007, Pinewood announced a £200m expansion plan, known as Project Pinewood.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7097093.stm|title=Pinewood studios plan expansion|publisher=BBC | date=15 November 2007}}</ref> If would have included replicas of streetscapes and zones replicating locations from the UK, Europe and the United States. Planned zones include a college campus, Amsterdam, modern European housing, Venice, Lake Como, Paris, an amphitheatre, Prague, west coast American housing, warehousing and downtown New York sets, Chicago, Vienna, a castle, a UK canal, Chinatown and a London street market built.<ref name="Pinewoodpr">{{cite web|url=http://www.projectpinewood.com/material/pw_map.pdf|title=Project Pinewood press release|date=3 April 2008|access-date=23 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910161020/http://www.projectpinewood.com/material/pw_map.pdf|archive-date=10 September 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In addition it will also be used as residential housing, with the proposed creative community, expected to be in the region of 2000 and 2250, being integrated with the film locations.<ref name="Pinewoodpr"/> Following consultations with the local community the plans changed to reflect the community's opinions and suggestions. However, the planning application was rejected by South Bucks District Council in October 2009, following a opposition campaign by local residents, who formed a "Stop Project Pinewood" group.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Pinewood appealed against the decision and a public inquiry commenced on 5 April 2011<ref>{{cite news| title = Project Pinewood Newsletter| publisher = The Pinewood Studios Group| url = http://www.projectpinewood.com/pdf/PinewoodNewsletterMarch11.pdf| access-date = 23 September 2011}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and on 20 January 2012, it was announced that the appeal had been turned down.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/9484615.__200m_Project_Pinewood_plan_refused_by_Government/?ref=rss |title=£200m Project Pinewood plan refused by Government (From Bucks Free Press) |publisher=Bucksfreepress.co.uk |date=20 January 2012 |access-date=8 February 2013}}</ref> On 15 May 2013, local councillors in South Buckinghamshire rejected a pared down version of the expansion plans. The chief executive of the studios, Ivan Dunleavy, said he expected to appeal against the latest decision to the Secretary of State, [[Eric Pickles]], who rejected the previous application, a year earlier.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pinewood Expansion Dashed Again |url=http://ukscreen.com/news/pinewood-expansion-hopes-dashed-again/ |publisher=UKscreen.com |date=15 May 2013 |access-date=15 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306145736/http://ukscreen.com/news/pinewood-expansion-hopes-dashed-again/ |archive-date=6 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 19 June 2014 it was reported that Pinewood Studios had received approval to go ahead with the multimillion-pound expansion plans which would see it rival Hollywood film sets.<ref>{{cite news | title = Pinewood Studios wins permission to double in size despite strong opposition | work = The Guardian | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/19/pinewood-studios-permission-double-opposition-planners | access-date = 23 November 2014}}</ref>