Policy information sourced from Windsor and Maidenhead Local Plan
TR 1 Hierarchy of Centres
The area’s centres will be supported and strengthened to ensure that they continue to be the focus of communities. Initiatives which safeguard and enhance their role and function will be supported.
The hierarchy of centres in the Borough is defined as follows:
- Town Centres: Windsor; Maidenhead
- District Centres: Ascot; Sunningdale
- Local Centres: Cookham; Cookham Rise; Datchet; Dedworth Road West, Windsor; Eton; Eton Wick; Old Windsor; Shifford Crescent, Maidenhead; Sunninghill; Vale Road, Windsor; Wessex Way, Cox Green; Wootton Way, Maidenhead; Wraysbury. In addition, a new Local Centre will form part of the development of Maidenhead Golf Course.
Windsor and Maidenhead will be the preferred location for the development of main town centre uses, followed by the District and Local Centres. The extent of the centres is defined on the Policies Map.
Developmentproposals for maintowncentreuses includingretaildevelopment, leisure,entertainment facilities, offices, hotels, arts, cultural and tourism development will be supported in accordance with the hierarchy, provided they are appropriate in terms of their scale, character and design, and are well-related to the centre.
For more information please see the Local Plan