Bull-dozing through, adding pollution

In a recent interview Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, told the BBC Sunday’s Laura Kuenssberg that although Rishi Sunak’s Government still intends to hit the promise made by the Tories in their 2019 manifesto of 300,000 new homes a year, ‘What we critically need to do is to make sure that we have local communities consenting to development’.

Well, it’s pretty clear that the people of Maidenhead do not consent to the development of over 200 acres of our greenbelt, set out in RBWM’s Borough

Local Plan, and bull-dozed through by the current Conservative administration.

We’ve seen three protests outside the town hall, three protests on the golf course, a legal challenge of the Borough Local Plan backed by over 550 local people, and a petition asking to save Maidenhead Golf Course from development signed by nearly 4,500 local people.

Another protest is planned for RBWM’s next full council meeting on Tuesday, November 22, when a petition calling for improved monitoring of air pollution in the borough will be debated.

We don’t have the necessary infrastructure, Maidenhead town centre and Bray are already Air Quality Management Areas, our water supply is severely stressed, we regularly have sewage going into our rivers, our biodiversity is in crisis and our local health services are over-stretched.

Maidenhead says no!