Following an application made by the Maidenhead Great Park campaign group, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) has designated Maidenhead golf course an Asset of Community Value (ACV). As a result of this designation, RBMW cannot sell the land, or any part of it, without first giving the… Continue reading Golf Course designated Asset of Community Value
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The golf course planning application hearing is currently planned to take place on Tuesday 14 January 2025.
This outline planning application is being made by the joint venture partnership between Cala Homes and RBWM. The application seeks permission to build 1,500 homes on Maidenhead Golf Course.
We’re planning to hold a demonstration outside Maidenhead Town Hall at 6pm on 14 January asking our council to reject these enviornmentally damaging plans.
Please do email us at maidenheadgreatpark@gmail.com if you’d like to join our email update list so we can keep you up to date.
Thousands of trees will be cut down if development goes ahead
Around 40 per cent of the publicly-owned land at Maidenhead Golf Course occupies is woodland, including five acres of ancient woodland at Rushington Copse. The woodlands and green space at Maidenhead golf course provide important habitats for wildlife, including protected species like owls, bats and kestrels.
As well as destroying wildlife habitats, plans to develop Maidenhead Golf Course will significantly increase traffic, air pollution, sewage in our rivers, drought and flood risk in Maidenhead.
Help us to highlight how this development will deprive future generations of the opportunity to use these publicly owned woodlands and areas of greenspace to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The golf course land should remain green so that our community can make the most of this publicly owned land for pollution absorption, water storage, mental and physical health and wellbeing and nature recovery.
It’s not too late to object
Please do support our campaign by objecting to these plans that will lead to the cutting down of thousands of trees, devastating our local wildlife.
How to object
You can simply email planning@rbwm.gov.uk giving your reasons why you object to this planning application. Include the ref no 24/00091/OUT and give your full name and address.
Why RBWM can’t afford not to back out of golf course deal
Following the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s council meeting on 17 July, where the council responded to our latest petition calling for the protection of the greenspace and woodlands at Maidenhead golf course, we wrote the following letter: Dear Cllr Werner, Leader of RBWM RBWM’s response to our petition… Continue reading Why RBWM can’t afford not to back out of golf course deal
Significant harm to biodiversity
We asked Future Nature WTC (BBOWT’s ecology consultancy) to examine CALA Homes’ outline planning application to develop Maidenhead golf course and to submit an objection. Cala Homes has undervalued the woodland habitats Future Nature’s assessment found the application undervalues the woodland areas and scattered trees in relation to both their… Continue reading Significant harm to biodiversity
Why developing Maidenhead Golf Course will increase our flood risk
Hundreds of objections to Cala Homes’ outline planning application to build 1,500 new homes on Maidenhead Golf Course have been submitted. One of these objections analyses the impact of the development on flood risk. There can be no doubt that climate change is already dramatically altering our weather patterns. We’ve… Continue reading Why developing Maidenhead Golf Course will increase our flood risk
Protect our Public Open Space
We’ve put in a series of objections to Cala Homes’ planning application to build 1,500 new homes on Maidenhead Golf Course, including on the grounds that this Public Open Space has not been disposed of correctly. Mandatory requirements have not been followed Specifically, we’ve objected on the basis this area… Continue reading Protect our Public Open Space