Maidenhead Great Park

The vision of a new park for the community

Councillor Hill asked our council to protect our green lung

At the full council meeting, held on 2 March 2021, Councillor Geoff Hill of Oldfield Ward urged the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead to agree to a motion, “not to build on Maidenhead Golf Course and to keep our green lung, with its trees and wildlife for the continued…

Cllr Taylor explains why the golf course land is in public ownership

On 2 March 2021, we presented our petition for debate at an Extraordinary Full Council meeting. Councillor Helen Taylor of Oldfield Ward supported our motion to protect the greenspace of Maidenhead Golf Course with the following words: “I would like to share a press release from 31 July 1953 with…

Tina’s speech to our council

On 2 March, the Maidenhead Great Park campaign group presented their petition for debate at the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s full council meeting. Unfortunately our motion was defeated, but we wanted to share Tina Quadrino’s speech: Thank you, Mr Mayor, for allowing me to speak about this petition…

Quick link to our petition!

Here’s a link to our online petition to our council. It closes at midnight on Thursday 10 December 2020 https://petitions.rbwm.gov.uk/MheadGreatPark/

Highlighting the final days of our petition

We’ve been highlighting the final days left on our online petition with a ’12 days to petition’ countdown. In June we lodged our online petition with our council, asking them to Create Maidenhead Great Park on the publicly owned land currently leased by Maidenhead Golf Club. We are calling for…

Frequently Asked Questions

Who owns the golf course land? The land was bequeathed to the people of Maidenhead by Lord Desborough for leisure use. It is owned by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead and leased to Maidenhead Golf Club. Is the land Green Belt? Yes. How can it be built on…