Crowthorne Village Action Group
CVAG protecting our village against urbanisation
Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital’s original 19th century buildings are
now unfit for use and so West London Mental Health Trust plan to build a new hospital
at the side of the current buildings. The original buildings and garden -
Finance will come from Department of Health funding and also money raised from sale
of adjacent Broadmoor land on which Bracknell Forest plans to build 480 dwellings.
This is in the Broadmoor Hospital/School Hill/Cricket Field Grove area. More details
at West London Mental Health Trust website: http://www.wlmht.nhs.uk/bm/broadmoor-
CVAG’s concern is:
- the potential loss of woodland (see detailed map on useful documents page)
- the fact that it is partly a green field site (i.e. a site never built on)
- that a significant part of this proposed development is within 400m of the Special Protection Area.
Other major factors are:
- that the local secondary school, Edgbarrow, has very limited excess capacity
- the total absence of public transport
- the increase of traffic on local roads caused by the proposed housing.
* Thames Basin Special Protection Area: current regulations ensure that any land within a 400 metre buffer zone, which is deemed to be of ecological importance in maintaining the bird population, will not be developed. More on EU designated SPAs at:
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designatedareas/spa/