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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Local Plan submission<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Feathers pub signage<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brownies open again<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Local Plan Consultation period closes on March 14<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you wish to make a personal submission, a form is available on the SBDC website at:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.southbucks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7772&p=0">http://www.southbucks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7772&p=0</a> (WORD format)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.southbucks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7773&p=0">http://www.southbucks.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=7773&p=0</a> (PDF format)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Most of the information that directly affects Taplow is on the Society website at:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.taplowsociety.org.uk/twiki/bin/view/Main/NLPTaplowElements">http://www.taplowsociety.org.uk/twiki/bin/view/Main/NLPTaplowElements</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Society is submitting the following comment:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Consultation on the emerging Local Plan 19<sup>th</sup> January 2016 -14<sup>th</sup> March 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The Hitcham and Taplow Society comments as follows. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The Society has been in existence for over 50 years. It has a main objective to ensure that all development within the district is of the highest standard and preserves the quality of the environment. It represents a significant proportion of the residents of Taplow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Our comments are limited to matters directly affecting the immediate areas of Hitcham and Taplow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Identified Opportunity sites:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The two areas of Mill Lane and Institute Road are developments that are already under way and as such need no further comment in this context. The housing numbers involved show that Taplow is already making a disproportionate contribution to the projected Local Plan housing need.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span lang=EN>SB0063 Land South of Taplow Station<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span lang=EN>We assume that this is bounded to the south by the A4. Although this is part of Green Belt parcel 90, it is heavily affected by its location between the railway and the A4. As such we are not opposed to its further evaluation. If the description is meant to encompass land south of the A4 we are in complete opposition to any re-evaluation. This land is an essential barrier to the merging of Slough and Maidenhead conurbations and must be strongly protected. (See comments below on Green Belt parcel evaluations).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span lang=EN>SB0296 Bishop's Gate, Station Road, Taplow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span lang=EN>Again, the definition is weakly made. We assume that it refers only to the land south of the railway, north of the A4 and east of Station Road. This land is already industrialised and we have no objection to its further evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span lang=EN>SB0297 Marsh Lane, Taplow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span lang=EN>This opportunity area is very poorly defined. However, it sits completely within Green Belt parcel 90 and has no industrial or commercial activities other than some agriculture related business, together with a classic collection of cottages and modest houses and the Thames Valley Adventure Playground. We consider it totally unsuitable for any form of development. It is a classic barrier keeping Maidenhead and Slough apart. It should be removed from the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Green Belt Parcel Evaluations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span lang=EN>We have significant concerns over the published evaluations of the Green Belt parcels within the Taplow and Hitcham areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>It is fundamentally wrong to publish a set of evaluations without the criteria and methodologies used to produce them. The criteria must have been in existence before the studies could have been made. It raises the concern that these ratings may have been influenced by anticipated planning intentions. Of most particular concern in this matter is the evaluation of parcel 90. In the view of our Society (and we believe the Parish Council) this parcel is fundamental to the prime Green Belt function of separating towns. As such, we have seen it for some time as most under threat of creeping erosion. To see it only given a score of 3 for this function (in the absence of published criteria) can only lead to the suspicion that it is targeted for change. The adjacent parcel 73 is given 5 although fairly clearly under no such threat. Parcel 90 should be elevated to a score of 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN>The absence of published criteria means that our criticism is qualitative, whereas to be properly effective it should have a quantitative component for the parcel evaluations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span lang=EN>To our understanding, the next public consultation on the Plan in autumn 2016 is likely to contain the actual full plan for approval and therefore contain many decisions based on the parcel scores. This is quite wrong. We accept that HM Government pressures in effect require councils to re-evaluate the Green Belt. This is always going to be a contentious issue and the developers of the Local Plan should have taken much firmer steps to ensure that the debate is as transparent as possible. The present consultation does not achieve this.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>An objection to signage at “The Feathers” inn.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=casenumber><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>16/00297/ADV </span></span><span class=divider1><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>|</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'> <span class=description>1 Non-illuminated post sign. </span><span class=divider2>|</span> <span class=address>The Feathers Taplow Common Road Burnham Buckinghamshire SL1 8NS<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=address><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>The Hitcham and Taplow Society <b>objects to this application</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=address><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>This car park sign is completely unnecessary – access to the car park is perfectly clear without it. The sign adds to roadside clutter – in contrast to the view shown in the accompanying English Heritage document.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=address><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>The signage is out of keeping with its historical setting opposite Cliveden.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=address><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>We also point out that the applicants do not have permission</span></b></span><span class=address><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'> for the current main sign board for the Feathers. The English Heritage picture clearly shows the correct Prince of Wales Feathers and consent for a sign of this style was explicitly granted under </span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>11/01246/LBC</span><span class=address><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>, whereas the applicants have replaced this with some modernist concoction again quite out of character. They should be required to revert to the approved sign or submit another application for change. The historical context for “Prince of Wales Feathers” is particularly strong for this particular inn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>By 1780, the inn had been renamed <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The Three Feathers</span></em> as </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>a nod to the heraldic badge of King George III’s eldest son Frederick, Prince of Wales (who lived at Cliveden 1739/51). </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Throughout its evolution, the inn continued to celebrate this royal connection in its name and its sign as it was partially rebuilt and extended to be noted in 1847 as <i>The Prince of Wales Feathers </i>and since before 1851 as simply <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The Feathers</span></em>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Thus the image of the Prince of Wales' feathers has been embedded for perhaps 240 years in the history of not only the inn but also of Cliveden and of Taplow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>1ST TAPLOW AND HITCHAM BROWNIES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>After a short temporary closure 1st Taplow and Hitcham Brownies is re opening on Thursday April 14th 2016. Meetings are held at Taplow Guide Hut, Institute Road, Taplow, SL6 0NS from 6pm to 7.30pm during term time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Age range for Brownies is 7years to 10years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>For further details please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Susan Silver Brownie Guider by E Mail<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:silver626@btinternet.com">silver626@btinternet.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roger Worthington, secretary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>07787556309<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>This mail has been sent to you from the Hitcham and Taplow Society. If has been sent to you in error or you do not wish to receive such communications, please reply to <a href="mailto:secretary@taplowsociety.org.uk">secretary@taplowsociety.org.uk</a> and we will remove you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>