The golf course planning application hearing is currently planned to take place on Tuesday 14 January 2025.

This outline planning application is being made by the joint venture partnership between Cala Homes and RBWM. The application seeks permission to build 1,500 homes on Maidenhead Golf Course.

We’re planning to hold a demonstration outside Maidenhead Town Hall at 6pm on 14 January asking our council to reject these enviornmentally damaging plans.

Please do email us at maidenheadgreatpark@gmail.com if you’d like to join our email update list so we can keep you up to date.

Thousands of trees will be cut down if development goes ahead

Around 40 per cent of the publicly-owned land at Maidenhead Golf Course occupies is woodland, including five acres of ancient woodland at Rushington Copse.  The woodlands and green space at Maidenhead golf course provide important habitats for wildlife, including protected species like owls, bats and kestrels.

As well as destroying wildlife habitats, plans to develop Maidenhead Golf Course will significantly increase traffic, air pollution, sewage in our rivers, drought and flood risk in Maidenhead. 

Help us to highlight how this development will deprive future generations of the opportunity to use these publicly owned woodlands and areas of greenspace to mitigate the effects of climate change.

The golf course land should remain green so that our community can make the most of this publicly owned land for pollution absorption, water storage, mental and physical health and wellbeing and nature recovery.

It’s not too late to object

Please do support our campaign by objecting to these plans that will lead to the cutting down of thousands of trees, devastating our local wildlife.

How to object

You can simply email planning@rbwm.gov.uk giving your reasons why you object to this planning application. Include the ref no 24/00091/OUT and give your full name and address. 

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Maidenhead Great Park's campaign to save publicly owned woodlands and greenspace from being concreted over

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… Continue reading Why RBWM can’t afford not to back out of golf course deal

We’ve written to Legal & General

Campaign to save Maidenhead Golf Course from Development

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… Continue reading We’ve written to Legal & General

There’s no protection for the trees on Maidenhead Golf Course

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… Continue reading There’s no protection for the trees on Maidenhead Golf Course

Create some Art for the Park

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. … Continue reading Create some Art for the Park