Tag: Maidenhead Great Park

Come to our consultation event 22 Feb
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Following the designation of Maidenhead golf course by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (RBWM) as an Asset of Community Value (ACV), we’re planning a community consultation drop-in event at Larchfield Community Centre on Saturday 22 February 2025, 10am to 4pm. As a result of the golf course’s designation…
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Why RBWM can’t afford not to back out of golf course deal
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Following the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’s council meeting on 17 July, where the council responded to our latest petition calling for the protection of the greenspace and woodlands at Maidenhead golf course, we wrote the following letter: Dear Cllr Werner, Leader of RBWM RBWM’s response to our petition…
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We’ve written to Legal & General
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We recently wrote to Sir John Kingham KCB FRS, Chair of Legal & General to explain why building woodlands and greenspace is unstainable and goes against the company’s ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) committments. In our letter to Sir John Kingham we said: We are campaigning against the plans to…
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There’s no protection for the trees on Maidenhead Golf Course
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We estimate there are thousands of trees on the council owned land, currently leased by Maidenhead Golf Club, providing important wildlife habitats and locking up around 16,000 tonnes of carbon. The trees range from ancient oaks and ash trees, to mature fir, willow, maple and many smaller oak trees. Aerial…
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Write to your local councillor
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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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Create some Art for the Park
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Having access to local parks and greenspaces is really important for our physical and mental health and wellbeing, especially for children. The Maidenhead Great Park campaign asks our council to turn the parkland currently occupied by Maidenhead Golf Club into a park for everyone, rather than developing it for housing. …
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