Community invited to events to help shape Ascot’s future development and High Street improvements
The Ascot community is invited to attend workshops and drop-in events to help shape the town’s rejuvenation, including sharing their views on options for improving the High Street.
The Royal Borough is working with residents, community groups, businesses and other partners to produce a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) that will guide future development in the area, complementing the vision set in the Borough Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan.
The Borough Local Plan includes a high-level vision to rejuvenate Ascot as a vibrant place for the community, with an improved High Street and high-quality new development that is well integrated into Ascot and protects its green and leafy character. New development in Ascot will be focused on the High Street.
The SPD, once agreed, will provide more detail to guide developers in shaping planning applications and the council in deciding them, as well as setting out proposals to improve the High Street. It will also set out how development and the infrastructure needed to support it can happen in a coordinated way.
We want as many people as possible who live or work in Ascot to share their thoughts.
Book onto a community workshop
Attendance at the workshops must be booked in advance and will take place at
Ascot Racecourse on Thursday 22nd February and Tuesday 26th March, both from 7pm to 9pm. The two workshops will cover different material. To book a place at one of these sessions, visit www.rbwm.gov.uk/ascot-placemaking-spd email planning.policy@RBWM.gov.uk or call 01628 796187.
Or just turn up at a drop-in event
Alternatively, people are welcome to simply turn up to view the plans and give feedback at drop-in sessions happening at Ascot Durning Library on Monday 26th February 11am to 1.30pm and Thursday 29th February, 2pm to 7pm. The exhibition boards will then stay on display at the library until 15th April.
In the coming weeks, people will also be able to see information and share thoughts online via the above weblink, with the window for feedback staying open until 15 April.
