Save Alexandra Gardens 2020

This is the home page for our latest campaign to stop the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, under Conservative leadership, from developing at Alexandra Gardens.

This will be the third attempt to build at Alexandra Gardens, this time driven by the need to bail out the council which has massively overspent its budget and is running short on money.

More Than A Shelter

Until they were stopped in this year's budget, all councillors were given an allowance, which they could donate to a good cause of their choice. Having followed the project last year, and hearing lots of good things about More Than A Shelter - Windsor, I decided to direct my allowance to them and on Tuesday evening, I popped down to see the project in action during their final week.

Some months ago, I asked for the double roundabouts scheme to be added to the work programme for the overview and scrutiny panel. I was keen to hear a report into the consultation process, the trial and subsequent implementation of the roundabouts, which took place during 2019.

At Thursday's meeting, officers presented a report and Karen and I were then able to ask questions about the process. The consultation was of particular interest. I queried:

Before his sudden departure, the then Leader of the Council, Cllr Dudley, promised a full review of the purchase and installation of the new parking machines, that cost us £750,000 and caused no end of issues for users, when they were installed this time last year. There were problems with uploading the Advantage card database and many residents found that their cards didn't work; the machines were too complicated and they couldn't access the expected discount.