Maidenhead Great Park

The vision of a new park for the community

Maidenhead Great Park has filed for a legal challenge of RBWM’s Borough Local Plan

Following a successful public fundraising campaign for the initial legal fees needed, the Maidenhead Great Park Community Interest Company has today (22 March 2022) promoted and funded filing for a statutory challenge of the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s (RBWM) Borough Local Plan (BLP). The Royal Borough of Windsor…

Join our footpath protest on Earth Day

As part of our campaign to stop the over-development of Maidenhead, we are asking people to join our footpath procession across Maidenhead Golf Course, on Earth Day, Friday 22 April at 6.30pm. The event aims to highlight the damage to our community of the planned destruction of woodlands and greenspace…

We’ve launched a new air pollution petition

Yesterday (8 March 2022) we’ve started a new petition asking the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) to increase and improve its measurements of health damaging PM10 and PM2.5 particulates. Our government recognises air pollution as “a major health risk, ranking alongside cancer, heart disease and obesity. It shortens…

Legal advice fundraising target met

We are delighted to announce that we’ve so far raised over £11,000 for the legal and ecological advice needed to inform the next steps of our campaign to protect the publicly owned parkland leased to Maidenhead Golf Course from development. We now have enough money for the first round of…

The impact of over development in Maidenhead

Fiona Allen spoke at our last demonstration outside the Town Hall on 8 February. She outlined the problems Maidenhead will experience as a result of the over-development planned for our town, and the cost to our health and wellbeing of living in a town which will become a massive construction…

Nature is under threat in Maidenhead

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…