Members of AG-RAG attended the first Arborfield SDL Residents Forum for almost six months last week where the Arborfield landowners and developers revealed new planning consultants who are redesigning the master plan (again) and published a schedule indicating that they are moving to make a planning application in March 2013, whilst Wokingham Borough Council indicated that they are still working on the vital traffic modelling that underpins their justification for the road improvements.
Cllr Angus Ross, the former Executive Member for Planning made the following statement to a BBC South reporter over a year ago regarding the traffic modelling – the full report can be found here.
Given what happened in Shinfield where the developers lost patience with the council pushed ahead with a planning application, appealed and then was granted the appeal in part on grounds of non-determination from Wokingham Borough Council the Arborfield Garrison Residents Action Group today published the following press release expressing our concern, and urging both the council and the developers to work with residents to address their concerns, and ensure that residents in Arborfield do not let down by the council in a similar way.
