Capital gains will be Maidenhead’s loss

So at the behest of our councillors and so called planners, Maidenhead town is to become a downtown New York lookalike.

Obviously no regard has been given to the people that live here.

Were the people properly consulted?

I was under the impression that councillors were supposed to have the best interests of their electorate at heart, it certainly doesn’t seem so in this case.

Do the people that live here actually want this ghastly development?

Cllr Andrew Johnson said he was ‘confident that the 25-storey building would be acceptable for Maidenhead, given it got approval from planning officers and councillors’. But did it get approval from the people of Maidenhead?

I think it’s about time that when massive projects like this are proposed everyone in the borough is informed by post with full details and we get to vote on it, and it we don’t want it, it doesn’t happen.

Our councillors will say that’s too

expensive, but if they can spend six million on unnecessary roundabout improvements they can afford to keep us informed.

According to Areli Real Estate they have been consulting closely with the community for the last two years which is news to me as the first time I heard their name was in last week’s Tiser.

I get the distinct impression that Areli was formed just to make vast sums of money by destroying towns like ours.

To quote from their website: “In December 2018, ARELI entered into an investment partnership with Tikehau Capital to implement a comprehensive urban regeneration strategy across the UK.”

Enough said.

KEITH CHAPMAN Cornwall Close

Maidenhead