A statement from Keep Emmer Green
Reading Golf Club have once again sparked the most ever objections – over 4000! - for their latest attempt to build 223 properties on open park land in Emmer Green. We expect this number to be confirmed by the Council in the coming days.
The developer uses out of date data and flawed assumptions to back up their application which seeks to bulldoze Reading’s local plan.
The community in Caversham, Emmer Green and South Oxfordshire have made it plain that they have had enough with Reading Golf Club and their developers fiddling with a fundamentally broken proposal. We ask the council once again to respect not only the views of their residents, but their own planning strategy and policies, and reject this third application, which - if approved - would destroy hectares of open park land and add over a thousand daily car journeys to polluted Reading roads.
We ask that Reading Borough Council considers the future benefit to thousands of Reading residents by keeping green space green, and their commitment to define Reading as a ‘city of parks and rivers’ by 2030.
It is not just residents that have objected, but includes local businesses, schools and teachers, as well as three nearby parishes, Sonning Parish, Kidmore End Parish and Shiplake. All of the community groups, WADRA, CADRA, EGRA, Caversham Globe and KEG have submitted objections. The Chiltern Conservation Board has submitted detailed points regarding protection of the nearby AONB. Local councillors Clarence Mitchell, Adele Barnett Ward and MP Matt Rodda have objected. Thames Water have confirmed that they don’t have capacity in the existing water system for fresh or waste water.
We are awaiting detailed points from other organisations that we have been in contact with, and once again thank the community for putting their objections forward.
