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D-Day for plans for 433 homes at Winnersh

By Lewis Rudd
November 16, 2011

A final decision on controversial blueprints proposing the development of 433 homes, a new primary school and relief road in Winnersh is expected to be given by planing bosses tonight.

Plans from developers Bovis Homes and Persimmon Homes to build the mini-town at Hatch Farm Dairies in King Street Lane will be scrutinised by the planning committee at Wokingham Borough Council when it meets this evening.

Campaigners fearing the development will increase the risk of flood damage to their homes and escalate traffic problems in the area won a last-minute temporary reprieve in October when the committee deferred its decision on the plans.

This was because members felt more information relating to the Winnersh relief road, which will run from Reading Road near the BP garage to Lower Earley Way, is needed before they can be convinced the blueprints are acceptable.

Some also voiced concerns about the applicant only proposing to allocate 26 per cent of the development as affordable housing.

Representatives from both Winnersh and neighbouring Lower Earley are once again expected to speak out against the proposals before the committee decides whether to grant or refuse the applicant planning permission.

The application has been recommended for approval by planning officers working for the authority.

The meeting will be held at the council's civic offices in Shute End, starting at 7pm.

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More traffic for an accident blackspot where there have been fatal accidents in the past - So the council reassured the local residents that a crash barrier will be installed on th A329 before development can take place, did they ? Or is this another accident waiting to happen ?

Where is the infrastructure - yes we hear the promise of a relief road and who will pay for that the developer or the government (sorry taxpayer) what about the bigger scale these new residents will have to commute to their jobs Where is the third bridge over the thames? Rail Air link from Reading to Heathrow ? Better rail link Reading to Henley Cross rail route to London extended from Maidenhead to Reading ?

With proposed development of 2,500 homes on land within Shinfield traffic goes where?

Tilehurst Resident
17/11/2011 at 13:15

Building more houses on a greenfield site in or near an area that is prone to flooding is an utter insanity.

Fluffball, Berkshire
17/11/2011 at 09:34

Come on get them built, we need more houses.

Don't worry about flooding, we are about to have a drought.

jamesthemonkeh
16/11/2011 at 14:03

Great! We are going to get left with a massive junction in King Street Lane until the WBC decide if they are going to build the rest of the relief road!

Winnersh_Paul, Winnersh
16/11/2011 at 13:18

I'm not sure why the developers even bother. These plans have been around for years and you would have thought that by this stage the council and developers would be agreed. It's obviously worth a lot of money to the developers, but there is a point when they should just give up and leave the council with egg on there faces for being so incompetent in making decisions.

Smiffy, Reading
16/11/2011 at 11:35

have they done a traffic study for the times when mill lane & sandford lane are flooded as then there is significantly more traffic in the area and it is a not insignificant number of days each year.