At a meeting of the Windsor and Ascot Development Management Committee on Thursday 7 September 2023 at 7.00 pm the Committee approved planning application 22/02737/FULL – Land to the rear of 45 To 63 London Road, Datchet.
PROPOSAL: The construction of 80 dwellings with associated access, open space, landscaping and other infrastructure.
LOCATION: The site is generally wedge shaped and contained within London Road, Riding Court Road and the M4.
MAP: Can be found here:
https://rbwm.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s47672/22-02737%20AL39%20-%20Appendix%20A.pdf
OFFICER REPORT:
ROYAL BOROUGH OF WINDSOR & MAIDENHEAD (moderngov.co.uk)
(Please note that the word ‘flood’ appears 81 times in the report and the word ‘insurance does not appear.)
OFFICER RECOMMENDATION – Approval
VOTING: Alison Carpenter, Carole Da Costa, Devon Davies, Jodie Grove, Sayonara Luxton, Julian Sharpe, Amy Tisi, Julian Tisi and Mark Wilson (unanimous approval)
You can find the documents here: https://rbwm.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=631&MId=9519
This proposal breaks one of the major guidelines that the Planning authority itself claims to use: namely, that new developments should not fundamentally alter the housing density in the area concerned. This plan proposes 80 new households in two thirds of an area in which the remaining third of the area is currently occupied by ten dwellings. This gives a housing density of four times the existing density of the rest of the area in question.