Maidenhead & Windsor

Maidenhead Residents Get Fast-Track Way To Air Their Views

Local Maidenhead residents will get a fast-track way to have their say about how the Maidenhead Royal Borough develops in the future when a four-page newsletter is delivered to local homes from Friday (February 10).

The Maidenhead newsletter gives background information to the Local Development Framework (LDF) – the council's replacement for the Local Plan – and features a questionnaire on key issues which will affect and influence the development of the borough over the next 15 – 20 years.

More than 58,000 newsletters will be delivered by Royal Mail to local Maidenhead homes and copies will also be available in libraries and council offices. For residents who prefer to do their responses on-line, the home page on the Maidenhead council's website www.rbwm.gov.uk will feature a direct link to the questionnaire which can be completed on PCs and emailed direct to the planning policy team.

Maidenhead Cllr Vicky Howes, lead member for planning, urged everyone in the borough to get involved: "The LDF is one of the council's most important documents and it is essential that local residents make their views heard. It is all about the elements that make up a significant part of all our lives – where we live, work and shop, spend our leisure time, where and how we travel and how we want to protect our countryside and the Green Belt.

"The way the borough shapes up is something that concerns us all and the newsletter aims to kick start the process of getting the entire community involved the development of the LDF."

The Maidenhead borough-wide consultation also features an extensive programme of exhibitions and drop-in sessions which will be held over the next few weeks to give people the opportunity to get more information and chat to members of the council's planning policy team.

The programme runs from February 15 with seven drop-in events and two exhibitions:

Drop-in events:

Eton Wick Library
Wednesday February 15 2 - 7pm

Ascot Library
Thursday February 16 2 - 7pm

Old Windsor Library
Friday February 17 2 - 7pm

Sunningdale - Council Mobile Unit, Waitrose Car Park
Saturday February 18 10am - 2pm

Cookham Library
Monday February 20 2 - 7pm

Cox Green Library
Wednesday February 22 2 - 7pm

Datchet Library
Tuesday March 7 2 - 7pm

Exhibitions:

Maidenhead - Nicholsons Shopping Centre
Friday February 24 12noon - 5pm
Saturday February 25 10am - 4pm

Windsor - Windsor Library, Bachelors Acre
Friday March 3 12noon - 5pm
Saturday March 4 10am - 3pm

Further information on the LDF consultation is available from the council's customer service centre on 01628 683 868 or email planning.policy@rbwm.gov.uk

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