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Our council bought Maidenhead Golf Course to protect it ‘as open space’
In a letter to his solicitor about the prospect of death duties written 27 September 1944, Lord Desborough reviewed his land holdings. He said that “There would…be a good deal of indignation if the Maidenhead Golf Course were broken up…”. Lord Desborough died 9 January 1945, and in 1953 the…
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Please come to our next demo on 8 February
We are planning to hold another demonstration outside Maidenhead Town Hall on Tuesday 8 February at 6.00pm, calling for a halt to plans to develop Maidenhead Golf Course with over 2,000 homes. Calling for the rejection of the Borough Local Plan The demonstration will again ask Royal Borough of Windsor…
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The Government says it is committed to protecting the Green Belt
The Government Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities has responded to the national petition which calls for a ban on developments on Green Belt and Greenfield sites across the country. The ‘exceptional circumstances’ offered by our council are out of date The statement says that ‘This Government is committed…
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Nature is under threat in the Royal Borough
The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s Borough Local Plan includes building 2,000 new flats and houses on Maidenhead Golf Course. This land is green belt and was bought by the council in 1953 to protect it from development. Around 40 per cent of the 132-acre space is woodland (including…
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Which way did your local councillors vote?
We thought you might like to know which way your local councillors voted at the Full Council meeting held on 2 March 2021, when Cllr Hill of Oldfield put forward a motion asking our council to protect the greenspace of Maidenhead Golf Course. Here’s a list of councillors, showing whether…
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Ask your councillors to reject the BLP
Our best chance of stopping our council’s environmentally damaging plan to build 2,000 flats and houses on our greenbelt at Maidenhead golf course, is if the majority of our councillors vote to reject the Borough Local Plan (BLP) when it comes to Full Council for adoption. The meeting is likely…
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