MORE THAN 4,000 people have raised objections to a plan to build 223 homes at Reading Golf Course.
It follows on from previous attempts to build on the site, located off Kidmore End Road in Emmer Green.
Campaigners say that the latest round of objections has broken a Reading Borough Council record for number of submissions.
The plans to transform the golf course into a housing development have been opposed from the outset by the Keep Emmer Green campaign.
A statement on the campaign website states: “The community in Caversham, Emmer Green and South Oxfordshire have made it plain that they have had enough with Reading Golf Club and their developers fiddling with a fundamentally broken proposal.
“We ask the council once again to respect not only the views of their residents, but their own planning strategy and policies, and reject this third application, which – if approved – would destroy hectares of open park land and add over a thousand daily car journeys to polluted Reading roads.”
It adds: “We ask that Reading Borough Council considers the future benefit to thousands of Reading residents by keeping green space green, and their commitment to define Reading as a ‘city of parks and rivers’ by 2030.”
The campaign wants confirmation on the exact number of objections from the council.
The proposals to build on Reading Golf Club have been submitted by Fairfax Ltd and the golf club, which owns the land.
This plan, if approved, would see a mixture of 223 detached, semi-detached and terraced homes, 67 of which would be affordable, built on the golf course.
The last record for the number of objections to a planning application at Reading Borough Council was broken by a previous iteration of the Reading Golf Course plans.
That application, for 257 homes, received more than 3,000 objections and was rejected by the council’s planning committee last July.
A previous application for 260 homes on the Golf Course was withdrawn in December 2020 after receiving more than 2,000 objections.
