Policy information sourced from Windsor and Maidenhead Local Plan

ED 2 Protected Employment Sites

The BLP will retain sites for economic use and employment as defined on the Policies Map:

  • Office stock within the town centres of Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot will be protected and, in line with ED1(5) & (6), where redeveloped the Council will look to secure net additional office space where possible.
  • Outside the above town centres the Employment sites listed below are defined on the Policies Map as Business Areas:
    • Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead
    • Norreys Drive, Maidenhead
    • Foundation Park, Cox Green
    • Windsor Dials, Windsor
    • Centrica, Millstream Windsor
    • Alma Road, Windsor
    • Stafferton Way, Maidenhead, Employment Uses only
    • Whitebrook Park, Maidenhead
    • Tectonic Place, Maidenhead
  • Employment sites listed below are defined on the Policies Map as Industrial Areas:
    • Furze Platt Industrial Area, Maidenhead
    • Woodlands Business Park, Maidenhead
    • Cordwallis Industrial Area, Maidenhead
    • Howarth Road, Off Stafferton Way, Maidenhead
    • Prior’s Way Industrial Estate, Maidenhead
    • Vansittart Road Industrial Area, Windsor
    • Fairacres Industrial Area, Windsor
    • Ascot Business Park, Ascot
    • Queens Road Industrial Estate, Sunninghill
    • Manor House Lane Employment Estate, Datchet
    • Baltic Wharf, Maidenhead
    • Boyn Valley Industrial Estate. Maidenhead
    • Reform Road, Maidenhead
  • The sites listed below are defined on the Policies Map as Mixed Use Areas:
    • DTC Research, Belmont Road, Maidenhead
    • Shirley Avenue (Vale Road Industrial Estate), Windsor
  • The sites below are defined on the Policies Map as Established Employment sites in the Green Belt:
    • Maidenhead Office Park, For E(g) and industrial Uses
    • Ashurst Manor, Sunninghill, For E(g) use
    • Lower Mount Farm, Cookham, for Industrial Uses
    • Ditton Park, Riding Court Lane, for E(g) uses
    • Horizon Building, Honey Lane, Maidenhead, for E(g) Uses
    • Grove Park, Business Park, White Waltham, Mixed Uses
    • Silwood Park, Sunningdale, Technology Park / Educational Uses

Within industrial areas (as defined on the Policies Map) there will be a strong presumption in favour of retainingpremises suitablefor industrial, warehousingandsimilar typesofuses, (includingpremises, suitable for medium, smaller and start-up businesses). Proposals for new premises suitable for these types of uses will be supported. Other uses will only be permitted if they are ancillary to industrial or warehousing uses, do not result in the loss of industrial or warehousing premises or demonstrate a sufficient benefit for the economy of the Borough.

Within business areas and mixed use areas, intensification of employment activity will be encouraged subject to the provision of appropriate infrastructure and safe access. An element of residential development may also be acceptable in mixed use areas but it must ensure that the overall quantum ofemployment floorspace withinthe mixeduseareaasa wholeisnot reduced,except whereidentified in the proforma in this plan.

Within industrial, business and mixed use areas, development proposals that improve and upgrade the facilities available to support businesses will be supported.

Within Established Employment Sites in the Green Belt, proposals that improve and/or upgrade the uses specified in Clause 1v for each site will be supported. Proposals to intensify the uses may also be supported, subject to the provisions set out in national policy with regards to development within the Green Belt.

For all sites a ‘nil net loss’ of commercial floorspace principle will apply.

In exceptional cases, where redevelopment does not provide full replacement space the Council will require market evidence to justify this loss, using policy ED3 and Appendix D as a guide. This should consider both the reuse of the buildings on site and feasibility/viability of replacement space offered freeholdor leasehold. Justificationshouldalsobeprovidedas to why thereleaseisneededinadvance of the plan review of the allocation in question.

For more information please see the Local Plan