Residents of Earley, Woodley, and Shinfield are calling on Wokingham Borough Council and the Planning Inspectorate to reconsider the proposed 4,000-home Hall Farm development. The site regularly floods, local roads are already at capacity, and irreplaceable green spaces would be lost — demanding an independent flood risk review, a funded transport plan, reduced housing numbers, and genuine community consultation before any approval is granted.

This motion calls for the Hall Farm development of nearly 4,000 homes to be stopped. It raises serious concerns about traffic congestion, flood risk due to loss of greenery, and the lack of meaningful resident consultation.

Increase dredging of our waterways to assist in preventing flooding. We view dredging as essential to enhance the water-carrying capacity of our rivers & streams. By increasing this capacity, we could significantly help reduce the risk of flooding, which threatens businesses, homes, & lives.

We want the government to amend its Planning & Infrastructure Bill to: 1. Ban wind farms on peatland in the National Site Network and SSSIs in England, and 2. Require the restoration to good conservation status of peatland’s interlinked mosaic of habitats, including irreplaceable blanket bog.