Authority not getting it about tree destruction

I read with interest the article in the Maidenhead Advertiser of October 28

‘Great Park campaigners planning Town Hall demonstration’.

For a number of years I have been concerned about the proposed development by the BLP of the 2,000 dwellings to be erected on the golf course.

I wrote to our then Prime Minister

Theresa May in 2019 pointing out to her that if the destruction of this ancient woodland were to take place, it would take away the lungs of Maidenhead, and condemn the next generations of young people and children to ill health and worse.

Her response was that she would forward the letter to RBWM and I should contact the local planning department.

The spokesperson from RBWM says ‘the redevelopment of Maidenhead Golf Course is a crucial part of the next phase of Maidenhead’s regeneration’!

But what he or she should be saying is

‘protecting the greenspace of the golf course as it is vital for the future wellbeing of our community’.

The building of the dwellings on this land would have the same impact in this area as the destruction of the Amazonian and other global rainforests.

I am sure that if Sir Nicholas Winton, the wonderful person who rescued hundreds of refugee children, were here today, he would be the voice that would be heard in preventing this proposed pollution of our lovely town of Maidenhead and protecting the future of innocent children from unnecessary suffering.

It’s vital that we protect our remaining greenspaces for the benefit of future generations and, with the publicly owned greenspace of the golf course, we have wonderful opportunity to protect biodiversity, trees and public amenity all in one go.

I would like to add that I have never played golf, so there is no interest on my part in this destructive plan other than to give the future generations a green space in the town they live, without breathing in polluted air that is already overwhelming, caused by the amount of traffic using the roads, particularly the A308 coming in from

Windsor and the M4 motorway, as well as Shoppenhangers Road carrying the traffic from the M4 as well as the M404 to and from the centre of Maidenhead.

I am also convinced that the plan to build the homes on the golf course has not researched the infrastructure required to carry the services such as water-sewage and of course roads to provide adequate facilities for more than 6-8,000 people. MARGOT HARRIS Foxglove Drive

Maidenhead