For all those who care about Cookham & feel strongly about the huge impact the over-development of Hollands Farm & this adjoining Jackson’s Field will have on Cookham traffic, Cookham bridge and other infrastructure elements ( flooding, water run off, ongoing sewage problems etc), please respond before 6th May, using some of KBEG prompts below.
( Yes, this IS a separate consultation— which will become part of any future problem, as neither part will take full responsibility for overall infrastructure issues, or possible solutions. Just look at the ‘£7mm publicly funded ‘road to nowhere’ fiasco in neighbouring Beaconsfield, as a real & current example of ‘developer tricks’)
As Mandy Brar’s husband Harry said to me personally: ‘Everyone in Cookham needs to wake up to this! It’ll be too late to say anything, once it’s all concreted over’.
‘Build, build, build‘ simply doesn’t work at local level, when Brownfield opportunities and office conversions ( post pandemic) are neither considered fully or counted at all, within a Local Plan sustainable number level that has clearly been both considered and set.
This proposed development, in conjunction with Hollands Farm would take the Woburn and Bourne End total housing number to more than 200 homes above a sustainable total than is laid and fully documented in the Local Plan.
Please don’t assume this is someone else’s problem, ‘over the bridge’, so not a real concern in Cookham. ‘Rally the troops/ tell your friends’: Cookham really does deserve better!
Staying silent definitely won’t solve this.
Please have your say by a quick and simple email to
info@jacksonsfield.co.uk using any combination of these points, plus the KBEG website comments below.
Thanks, Troubled Bridge.
