Category: News
Environmental Impact Assessment for golf course admits “significant environmental effects”
CALA Homes’ Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Opinion for Maidenhead Golf Course has been published on the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s planning portal, and admits the development of this publicly owned woodlands and greenspace will lead to the “destruction” of protected species and “permanent loss” of “woodland of high…
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RBWM refused permission to plant a tree on the golf course
We have been refused permission to plant a tree next to Rushington Copse on Maidenhead Golf Course, as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative to mark the Platinum Jubilee. We wanted to plant a tree in memoriam to honour Her Majesty the Queen as part of the Queen’s Green…
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Legal challenge renewal hearing to be held 16 November
On Wednesday 16 November 2022, a renewal hearing will take place in the High Court to decide whether a legal challenge of the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s (RBWM) Borough Local Plan (BLP), raised by local residents, should be heard in full. On 22 March 2022, following a successful…
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Air Pollution Petition to be debated at 22 November RBWM council meeting
…and we are organising another demonstration at 6pm outside Maidenhead Town Hall ahead of the debate Thomas Wigley’s petition to the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM), asking for better monitoring of health damaging particulates has been signed by 2,151 residents and will be debated at RBWM’s Full Council…
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Our Air Pollution Petition closed with 2,151 signatures triggering a Full Council debate
Thomas Wigley’s petition to the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) closed on 8 September 2022, with 2,151 RBWM residents signing to ask for better monitoring of health damaging particulates. As the number of petitioners exceeds the 1,500 threshold, the petition will be debated at a Full Council meeting,…
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August heatwave saw local ozone levels again soar to dangerous levels
Tom Wigley, Windsor resident and member of the Maidenhead Great Park campaign group, explains why it’s vital to improve monitoring of dangerous air pollutants in our Borough, and to take effective action to tackle it – including protecting the green lung of the woodlands and greenspace at Maidenhead Golf Course.…
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