Green gaps and wedges review

The aim of the Green Gap and Wedge study, is to assist the Council in deciding where it should retain existing gaps and wedges in the district or make provision for the designation of new gaps and wedges.  The Inspector who reported on the Wokingham District Local Plan in 2001 made it clear that “it is not sufficient to merely carry forward the gaps and wedges from one plan to the next without critical assessment”.  The study will provide technical background evidence to inform, guide and support the formulation of the approach and policies in Wokingham Borough Council's Local Development Framework and will identify which land is essential to the functioning of gaps, i.e. land which physically and visually separates settlements across the Borough.  The assessment will also be used to support decisions at development control inquiries and independent examination of the Council’s Core Strategy and Site Allocations Development Plan Document. 

 

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Details of the green gap and wedge review for each area is included in menus below.

 

The gap areas are:

 

1a - Wargrave/Twyford/Charvil

1b - Sonning/Charvil/Woodley

2 - Sonning/Woodley

3 - Twyford/Hurst

4 - Woodley/Winnersh

5a - Earley/Winnersh/Sindlesham

5b - Wokingham/Winnersh/Barkham Hill/Sindlesham

5c - Wokingham/Barkham Hill/Arborfield Garrison/Arborfield Cross/Finchampstead North

6 - Green Park/Worton Grange/Three Mile Cross

7 - Whitley Wood/Shinfield North/Shinfield Village/Spencers Wood/Three Mile Cross

8 - Spencers Wood/Swallowfield

9 - Swallowfield/Riseley

10a - Binfield/Wokingham/Bracknell

10b - Wokingham/Finchampstead North/Crowthorne/Bracknell