Neighbourhood Plan – Current version (Reg 14)

Neighbourhood Plan

The Cookham Neighbourhood Plan (“CNP”)

Cookham Parish is preparing a CNP. This is our chance as a community to have our say in planning: it will set out policies which will be used (within the Borough Local Plan) by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (“RBWM”) to decide Cookham planning applications, including housing and design, landscape, green space, heritage assets, access, local services and facilities.

If we succeed, the Parish will receive 25% of payments from the Community Infrastructure Levy instead of 15% without one. So the Parish will have more money to fund community projects.

The Parish Council is clear that this is a community project. So, in 2020 it set up the Cookham Neighbourhood Plan Working Party. This has 5 Parish Councillors, with Cllr Bill Perry as Chairman of the group, along with some of the villages biggest local residents’ groups: the Cookham Society, WildCookham, Save Cookham and Dr Shelagh Courtenay-Smith, a Trustee of the Stanley Spencer Gallery and former Chairman of the Cookham Village Design Statement Working Party.

We want input from everyone in Cookham. Please contribute. Please watch for and respond to our adverts, leaflets, website (and, when allowed, public meetings). This is our great chance to help shape the future of Cookham. Please let’s work together and grab it.

Please view the video message HERE from the Chair of the Working Group to see why we think a Neighbourhood Plan is important for Cookham.

You can find out more about Neighbourhood Plans at:

Government website: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/neighbourhood-planning--2.

Locality’s Neighbourhood Plan information website: How to create a Neighbourhood Plan: Your step by step roadmap guide - Locality Neighbourhood Planning

Cookham Parish Council