Making the town live up to its surroundings

The stretch of water from Cookham, past Cliveden, through Boulters Lock to, say, Oakley Court is arguably the most attractive part of England’s great River Thames.

Sadly, Maidenhead itself is arguably the least attractive town in the area.

If the council and the developers are hoping to attract reasonably affluent and well-educated people from West London, they must raise their vision and create some areas which are elegant, smart and sophisticated otherwise such people will leapfrog Maidenhead and start their new lives west of Reading – down the railway line towards Bath.

PAUL WILLSON Pound Lane

Sonning