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Council: new strategic plan for Windsor

2015-06-18T13:04:33+00:00June 18th, 2015|Tags: , |

The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead has just announced a cabinet paper for a Windsor strategic plan. This will include the Windsor Link Railway. The council's forward plan says: If the recommendation to produce a Strategic Planning Document is accepted there will be widespread consultation with residents, businesses and stakeholders. The Windsor Link Railway is very pleased to see this. Last year, we had success in the Borough Local Plan to get the rail link supported in principle and, for the first time, [...]

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Council approves ‘preferred options’ policies supporting WLR

2015-02-27T08:15:00+00:00February 27th, 2015|Tags: , , , |

The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead's cabinet yesterday evening approved 'preferred options' policies for supporting the Windsor Link Railway. This is for the Borough Local Plan, which is due to go for a second consultation in June. The key parts relevant to WLR are preferred policy option INF2 (Sustainable Transport): It is proposed to amend Preferred Policy Option INF2 to provide support for the linking of the two rail lines in Windsor provided that it can be demonstrated there would be no substantial [...]

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Local plan working group minutes published

2017-06-01T19:25:40+00:00December 2nd, 2014|Tags: , |

The Borough Local Plan Working Group has been reviewing the draft of the next ‘preferred options’ consultation. The minutes of the meeting on 19 November, where WLR was discussed, have now been published. These recommend the borough's support for the objectives WLR, provided that the normal provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework are followed.  That is, there should be no substantial harm to heritage assets, flood protection, traffic flows etc. Also, of interest, is that — finally — Windsor is recommended for recognition as more than just [...]

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Observer reports on WLR’s inclusion in ‘key planning document’

2017-06-01T19:28:58+00:00November 30th, 2014|Tags: , , |

The Windsor Observer reports: The Royal Borough Local Plans Working Group met on Wednesday last week [19 November] to discuss items and policies to be included in the borough-wide Local Plan with the £250m Windsor Link Railway scheme up for discussion. The group agreed to propose adding the project to the plan, which will show how the Royal Borough intends to build more than 12,600 homes in the next 15 years. The WLR proposal includes plans for housing. It is understood the wording will [...]

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Windsor Observer reports on WLR planning progress

2014-10-29T08:44:45+00:00October 29th, 2014|Tags: , , |

The Royal Borough Observer reports: Windsor Link Railway (WLR) has passed the pre-planning advice stage with the Royal Borough for the first phase of its plan to transform rail travel in the South East by combining Windsor’s two stations underground. WLR's pre-planning document and advice returned from RBWM can be seen in full here.

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New Windsor neighbourhood plans established

2014-08-22T08:42:16+00:00August 22nd, 2014|Tags: , , |

Yesterday, at its cabinet meeting, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead decided to approve two neighbourhood plans areas for Windsor. This comes after a six week consultation period. An inner plan, covering the main business, visitor and shopping areas of central Windsor, was approved as a business area […]

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RBWM responds positively to WLR petition

2017-08-01T09:37:28+00:00February 26th, 2014|Tags: , , , |

Last night, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council gave its response to the petition on WLR. It resolved: This Council: (a) notes the petition and the case made for the Windsor Link Railway, and (b) encourages the WLR team to engage fully in the planning policy processes, feeding into the emerging Borough Local Plan and Central Windsor Neighbourhood Plan, and looks forward to the further submissions and discussions in these regards with all relevant Members and Officers. George Bathurst, introducing the petition, [...]

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Pre-planning application submitted

2017-06-01T20:50:44+00:00February 13th, 2014|Tags: , |

The Windsor Link Railway has today reached an important milestone: it has submitted its vision statement and pre-planning application to RBWM. WLR hopes that the council will be able to respond as follows: At a full council level, responding to the petition previously submitted, by affirming support for and collaboration with WLR (policy ASF1 of the Royal Borough’s Local Transport Plan inter alia) As part of the emerging Borough Local Plan, as requested by the Central Windsor Neighbourhood Plan, to ensure provision is made [...]

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