Vote on May 4 to stop building on golf course

Last week there were several articles in The Advertiser about AL13, or Maidenhead Golf Course, as most sane people will insist on calling it.

But before I go on, please make a note of this date in your diary, it is May 4, 2023.

That’s the day of the local council elections, the day when we can actually scupper these idiot plans that will involve building up to 2,600 ‘much needed’ homes on the Maidenhead Golf Course.

All we have to do is vote out this Conservative council – that’s it.

No need to get all tied up in tedious procedural activity trying to convince selfimportant High Court judges, no need to hold demonstrations and for that matter, no need to keep on writing vitriolic or sarcastic letters to your local paper.

Don’t forget also that in spite of the creation of our very own Lord of The Greens, Barnaby Briggs, still this council insists on proceeding with this ludicrous non-green development.

On page three last week I noted that the developers, Cala Homes, say that instead of the old-fashioned Maidenhead Golf Course, we will have the bright and shiny ‘Elizabeth Quarter’ instead.

That sounds lovely – very regal in fact. Andrew Aldridge of Cala Homes, along with solemnly promising an end to letters about the Northern Ireland Protocol in The Advertiser, said “Our aim is to create a sensitive, landscape-led development, which retains and protects as many precious natural features as we can, whilst delivering the new council tax payers that the current council so desperately needs.”

Oh, sorry, I may have slightly misquoted him there.

On page 10 yet another anonymous ‘council spokesman’ (there are so many of them, aren’t there), told us that the deliberately dull sounding Borough Local Plan will ‘guard against unsupported speculative development and protect our valued natural and built heritage’.

Thank goodness we won’t have any more unsupported speculative development.

And I thought comedy was dead.

And finally, talking of laughs, try Googling ‘RBWM AL13’ and you’ll see that even Google warns you that attackers might be trying to steal your information from consult.rbwm.gov.uk

Personally, I decided to choose the ‘Back to Safety’ option. I’m not making this up.

The point is that we can all choose the ‘Back to Safety’ option next May 4, simply by voting out this incompetent

Conservative council.

MALCOLM STRETTEN Boulters Lane

Maidenhead