Bray Parish Council RECOMMENDS REFUSAL of latest plans.

Bray Parish Council have recommended that the latest Braywick Court School plans be refused, a step in the right direction! 

Reasons cited in their comments are "GB1 Impact/intensification on the Green Belt & GB2 Overdevelopment of the plot, highway & traffic issues as inadequate parking/access". 

Most councillors seemed to share our concerns & the vote was 7-3 in favour of refusal. Cllr Dudley left the room and did not vote, and Cllr Burbage was mysteriously absent during discussions/vote, but arrived immediately afterwards according to the Maidenhead Advertiser. He still hasn't responded to our messages on twitter asking if he would vote.

Thank you to the councillors who attended & took the time to properly look at the plans & understand all the issues at play. 

As was mentioned at the meeting, this is not about the school itself - it is about *these* plans, on *this* specific site. There are 2 or 3 alternative, larger, much more suitable sites incredibly close by, also in the Braywick area that need to be seriously considered & so far have not. 

More details to follow.

What Happened to the 'Travel Plan'?

The elaborate 'Travel Plan' for Braywick Court School from Bellevue Place Education Trust seems to have been conveniently forgotten, as we predicted...

Remember this? (From the Braywick Court School Travel Plan - 2014/2015 Published in October 2014)

3 months later and this is ignored & parents are now instructed to use the Braywick Nature Centre Car Park...

The headteacher made public assurances that it would be a condition of entry for pupils that parents would agree to use the 'park & stride' system and NOT use the Braywick Nature Centre Car park. She & Braywick Court School have already broken this promise, just months into their first year.

The School's 'Travel Plan' was proposed to answer concerns over parking and traffic which it is obvious the school will create if allowed to expand to accommodate over 2.5x the number of children that ever attended Winbury School previously.

The travel plan and especially the concept of the 'park & stride' system was used as a means to answer some of the main objections to problems that will be caused by the school's proposed overdevelopment and expansion. And now, already it has been disregarded & is being ignored.

The path that was built for this park & stride system, without consultation, environmental impact research, looks terrible & gets waterlogged (still) - but Councillor Geoff Hill is incredibly proud of & takes sideways photographs of.

Oh, and they still haven't put in a planning application for the planned expansions - despite the school saying they would be submitted LAST AUTUMN...

Do you care about this? Want to help? Please sign our petition to ask RWBM to consider our idea of a 'split site' for Braywick Court School - which would avoid overdeveloping the Winbury School site and avoid building any new buildings on Braywick Park....