Bankside Housing Development

There is an outstanding planning application for 850 houses on land to the east of Oxford Road.

BCS objects as the roads edged red in the Phase 1 area have been constructed and the houses occupied but it is intended that these roads are to be used as access to / from Phase 2 (including construction) until the 'Manor Farm' junction with the Oxford Road has been provided and unsurprisingly this has provoked an objection from virtually every address in the two roads affected. 

These roads will have to be used, eventually, by Phase 2 residents to access the primary school and social centre, but this situation highlights the lack of an overall 'Master Plan' by CDC and begs the question. 'why wasn't at least one of these roads designed to more commodious criteria in the first instance' ?  There is an objection by the local Council Members which sums this up.

Associated with this application is the widening of Oxford Road from Grange Road to New Windsor Street. 

The most recent plans  on line  show most of the widening is now on the east side so that many, but not all, the existing trees should be untouched. The exception is north and south of the Horton View and Grange Road junctions, but the society continues to take a firm stand on this point in order to protect these well established trees - there are no trees within the highway limits on the other (east) side of this section of Oxford Road - but the verge is stuffed full of utilities equipment. But isothere really any need for  widening except in the immediate vicinities of the Horton View and Farmfield Road junctions?