Local Councillors and your MP

Depending on the scale of the Planning Application, you may want to contact your local Borough Councillor and even your Member of Parliament to ask them to support you by objecting to the Planning Application.

Bracknell Forest Borough Council usually makes the decision to allow or refuse planning permission on all planning application within the Borough boundaries. Professional Planning Officers working for the Council look at each application and publicise it to neighbours and the relevant Town or Parish Council.

If there are no objections raised then the Planning Officer makes a decision based on the application submitted in light of the adopted planning policies.

If there are more than three objections or a local Borough Councillor makes a request, the planning application will be decided instead by the Borough Council Planning and Highways Committee, consisting of a number of Borough Councillors advised by Planning Officers.

If their plans are refused, applicants have the right to make an appeal to the government’s Planning Inspectorate who can overrule local council decisions.

Your Local Borough Councillors and their email addresses are:

Cllr Brenda Wilson Brenda.Wilson@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Cllr John Harrison John.Harrison@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Cllr Ian Leake Ian.Leake@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Your Member of Parliament is Adam Afriyie

NOTE: Since the General Election in May 2010, Binfield has been part of the Windsor & Maidenhead consitituency.

EMAIL: afriyiea@parliament.uk

:WEBSITE: www.adamafriyie.org

Windsor Conservative Association
87 St. Leonards Rd, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 3BZ

Prior to the May general election Adam Afriyie commented on Bracknell Forest Council's proposals for the Northern Arc:

I have been fighting against the threat of insensitive overdevelopment across the constituency for many years. Having attended your Neighbourhood Action Group meetings and visited more than 3,000 doorsteps in your area so far, it seems to me that the some of these housing proposals could seriously undermine the character of a beautiful area.

The proposed 12,000+ housing units are being forced upon Bracknell Forest Council by a development plan created on the orders of the Labour government by a regional quango called the South East England Development Agency. I am happy to tell you that if a Conservative government is elected we will abolish Labour’s regional housing targets. The pressures for over-development of this kind will no longer be driven by government through unelected regional quangos.

In the meantime I share your concerns and will work with you, the local councillors and the local community to fight tooth and nail in the interests of residents to bring these plans down to a manageable proportion, which would be acceptable to local people.