Why building on the golf course doesn’t fit with our climate strategy
Around half the 53 hectare (131-acre) area occupied by Maidenhead Golf Course is wooded, locking up over 10,000 tonnes of carbon and providing a green lung for the people of Maidenhead. As the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) has identified in its own Environment & Climate strategy,1 ‘the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Maidenhead Great Park campaign motion narrowly defeated
Following the closure of our petition, on Tuesday 2 March we put forward a motion to our council at their Extraordinary Full Council meeting. Cllr Geoff Hill asked the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead to protect the whole area of parkland currently leased by Maidenhead Golf Club, so that…
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Write to your local councillor
If you’d like to support our campaign to protect the green belt land of the golf course, please do email or write to the Leader of our council Andrew Johnson, and copy in your local councillor. Please do write ahead of the Extraordinary Council Meeting scheduled for Tuesday 2 March…
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