Jackson Ng at Strategic Sites Committee, 24 September 2026
21/06215/OUTEA - Hollands Farm, Hedsor Road, Hedsor, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5EE (part 6 of 8)
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Sadly, Cookham Bridge and Ferry Lane. I've just been spending some time reading up on the Maidenhead Windsor Local Plan and I've been on Cookham Parish Council's website. So the first point I want to make is that I raised earlier about students coming across from the other local authority coming across to Buckinghamshire to study. Maidenhead's local plan acknowledges that. So I think they accept that their students coming over to our part of the county to study. But what's really interesting is that Cookham Parish Council raises issues and concerns about Ferry Lane and Cookham Bridge. But they've also criticised, it appears, their own local authority for not, would appear, paying too much attention to it. But I also noticed that our own cabinet member in dealing with the draft local plan has been approached for comments in public press about whether this will be a pinch point in traffic. And he has assured the press and the public that this wasn't the case. I seem to find there's quite a lot of conflicting accounts of this traffic on Cookham Bridge and Ferry Lane. Personally, I go to the garden tenter in Bonning quite a lot. And I can see why residents are very concerned. So I'm getting mixed messages. So what I'm really interested in hearing from Tim is really is when we have developments that borderline in this instance, or for example in Marlow, other local authorities or in other parts of the county, do we expect to hear back from the local authority, the local planning authority? Do we engage with the parish councils, in this case Cookham Parish Council? And how much weight does that come into effect? So for example, in this case, they've made no comments, so we accept that there is no opposition. That's the position we've taken. But is this a one -off piece, or have they just not, over the last few years, not engaged at all? I'm trying to get a bigger picture of what the engagement piece is from the parish council opposite the river and the local authority as well. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, from a... From the line., Give them takie assuntoこんにちは
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