The former RAF Staff College is a 44 hectare (110 acre) brownfield site originally allocated for housing development in the Bracknell Forest Borough Council adopted Local Plan in 2002. An outline planning application for 730 dwellings and community facilities was approved by the Borough Council in 2003. This outline consent formed the basis of the detailed planning permission which was granted in September 2006 and has enabled the early delivery of the first new homes.
Since then, Taylor Wimpey and English Partnerships have reviewed local housing requirements and the need to meet the government’s sustainable development criteria and, as a result, are seeking ways to better utilise the distribution of homes on the site. The latest proposals, to be submitted in September 2007, would see the site accommodate around 1,150 new homes. This would include 38% of the units designated for affordable and key worker homes for local people.
Our new proposals provide a unique opportunity to open up around 18 hectares (44.48 acres) of open space for public use. This includes formal playing pitches, woodland walks, children’s play spaces, informal parkland and wildlife areas.
To complement the central area of open space there will be a series of pocket parks, dispersed throughout the development, with formal civic gardens by the former Ramslade House.
Find out more at the public exhibition on the 20th and 21st July.
