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After the Crown Court moved to the magistrates' courts building further south along Walton Street in March 2018, Buckinghamshire County
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Council meetings: 26 April 2012 = last regular meeting of county council at "The Council Chamber, Market Square, Aylesbury", 24 May 2012 = first meeting of county council at "The Oculus, The Gateway, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury", and 28 April 2016 = final meeting of county
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new council chamber (called the Oculus) at The
Gateway on Gatehouse Road. An attempt to bring council meetings back to Old County Hall in 2016 was abandoned after one meeting due to concerns about the building's limited disabled access and difficulties of broadcasting meetings.
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and completed in 1850, while an extension to the south west, this time to accommodate the county constabulary headquarters, was built to the designs of David
Brandon in a similar style to the main building and completed in 1865.
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