From the Royal Borough Observer
The Royal Borough looks set to spend around £350,000 for the groundwork of a new Gypsy and Traveller site with 10 pitches on land at Datchet Common, in Horton Road, Datchet.
A report outlining the process of how the site will be built will be discussed at a Royal Borough cabinet meeting tonight with councillors advised to approve freeing up the cash in a bid to receive match funding from the Homes and Community Agency.
The report stated: “The current estimated cost for developing the site prior to any procurement exercise is that the site development will cost £700k to include the hard standing and infrastructure required.”
Councillors are also advised to enter into a 99-year lease for the Mill Place land to receive rent of £30,000 a year.
Cabinet has also been recommended to extend the management agreement with Radian - who look after the adjacent Mill Place site - to cover the new pitches.
The planning application for the site was passed at a heated Windsor Urban Development Control panel meeting on Wednesday, October 9, as councillors overruled planning officers’ concerns about flood risk.
The plan could yet be called in by the secretary of state for communities and local government due to the land being deemed at risk of flooding.
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