Whilst we wait for the staff at Wokingham Borough Council to scan in the 21 boxes of paperwork for the outline planning application, and for the developers themselves to get the planning application uploaded to their own Arborfield Vision site, an interesting map to take a look at.
This map is generated from the UK Election Maps site which is a useful resource for working out who your parish or local council is, or which parliamentary or european constituency you are in. It is worth looking at for the Arborfield Garrison SDL because it does highlight quite how misleading the name actually is!
Looking at the map, Wokingham Borough ward boundaries are in purple, and the parish council boundaries in blue. The first thing you’ll notice from them is that through the garrison the two boundaries are subtly different – the Arborfield Garrison Community Centre is in the Arborfield Parish Council area, but is in the Barkham Ward, similarly with some of the houses along Bramshill Close and Valon Road.
You’ll also notice quite how little of the SDL is actually in Arborfield, in terms of areas Barkham has most of the SDL, followed by Finchampstead, then Arborfield, and finally there is a very small triangle of land that is under Swallowfield.
Assuming the phasing plan presented by the developers last week is what actually happens, the first houses will be built in Swallowfield and Finchampstead. No new houses at all will be built in Arborfield. All of the development in Barkham is on brown field, previously developed land, most of the development in Finchampstead and all of the development in Swallowfield is on green field, undeveloped land.
Who Goes Where?
This map is generated from the UK Election Maps site which is a useful resource for working out who your parish or local council is, or which parliamentary or european constituency you are in. It is worth looking at for the Arborfield Garrison SDL because it does highlight quite how misleading the name actually is!
Looking at the map, Wokingham Borough ward boundaries are in purple, and the parish council boundaries in blue. The first thing you’ll notice from them is that through the garrison the two boundaries are subtly different – the Arborfield Garrison Community Centre is in the Arborfield Parish Council area, but is in the Barkham Ward, similarly with some of the houses along Bramshill Close and Valon Road.
You’ll also notice quite how little of the SDL is actually in Arborfield, in terms of areas Barkham has most of the SDL, followed by Finchampstead, then Arborfield, and finally there is a very small triangle of land that is under Swallowfield.
Assuming the phasing plan presented by the developers last week is what actually happens, the first houses will be built in Swallowfield and Finchampstead. No new houses at all will be built in Arborfield. All of the development in Barkham is on brown field, previously developed land, most of the development in Finchampstead and all of the development in Swallowfield is on green field, undeveloped land.
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