[4] The author Roald Dahl lived nearby in Great Missenden and is said to have drawn on his walks in the woods in Fantastic Mr Fox.

[8] Thus, almost half of the wood will be chopped down and it is one of 20 ancient woodland sites that HS2 will attempt to translocate, meaning the topsoil will be moved to another place.

[14] Lawyers requested that HS2 stopped clearing the site until a full survey had been carried out and suggested that the Natural England licence for works did not include destruction of bat habitats.

A local farmer from the Bunce family, after which Dahl named a character in Fantastic Mr Fox, said "It used to be full up with primroses, foxgloves, bluebells, wood anemones, all sorts of things".

[16] On 16 April, a High Court judge told HS2 to stop felling trees until at least 24 May, pending the result of an application for a judicial review of Natural England's decision.