Lord Desborough’s intentions
Lord Desborough was a great benefactor of Maidenhead. He gifted the land now known as Grenfell Park, during the Second World War he opened his home Taplow Court as a rest centre for nurses, and he donated money for the building of a cottage hospital. He leased out land to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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