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NEWS ON MARSH
MEADOW
Archive 14 - 22 August 2000
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Photo by Jeremy Wilson
2 2 August 2000COOKHAM
GOES INTERNATIONAL - Rhonda, at Cookham Dean Post Office, has heard from friends
that Cookham's Marsh Meadow is in the newspapers in New Zealand. Ask
Rhonda if you want to know more about it!!
21 August 2000 On
Monday 21 August, four Lib Dem Borough Councillors came to Cookham to look at
the site proposed for the Marsh Meadow car park. They were joined by 55
Cookham residents. 20 August 2000 The Cookham Society are planning to make a statement about their stance on the Marsh Meadow car park and will be giving this to cookham.com, so watch this space.
David
Ricardo was interviewed on Radio Leeds Sunday 20th August. Also the Mail on Sunday did
a two full page spread about Marsh meadow and Kenneth Grahame. They also
talked about how his character of Toad was supposed to be based on Colonel
Ricardo, one of David Ricardo's ancestors, who was supposed to have been a great
benefactor to the village of Cookham. Among other things he donated the King's
Hall to the villagers, which is now used as the Stanley
Spencer Gallery.
19 August 2000 David
Ricardo, the organiser of the group against the car park has had supporting
letters from both the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Tate Gallery.
17 August 2000 On
Thursday 17th August, Associated Press were photographing on Marsh Meadow. Associated
Press are the American Press Agency, so Cookham and Marsh Meadow may become
international.
16 August 2000 Michelle
Jones from Cookham had her letter printed in the Guardian on 16 August:
Vote
for Toad
We
are not all nimbys in Cookham (Storm in the willows, August 15). Some of us
think the proposed car park - sympathetically landscaped in a tiny corner of
the vast expanse of Marsh Meadow - will be of great benefit, enabling the
existing car park, a terrible eyesore, to be removed. The Marsh Meadow
Preservation Society is a tiny, although vociferous, minority, and the
National Trust is in favour of the new proposals.
I
hope the many visitors who come to Cookham will enjoy the scenery and the
views for generations to come and be able to park their cars within easy reach
of those things they have come to see.
Michelle
Jones Cookham,
Berks
14 August 2000 Cookham has hit the news this week with the discussions over the car park at Marsh Meadow. The early editions of Monday's Evening Standard had a full page spread and David Ricardo, a Cookham Village resident, was interviewed on Radio 5 Live on Monday 14 August. Marsh Meadow was also featured on the BBC One O'Clock News on Tuesday 15 August with a repeat on the Six O'Clock News, with a spokeswoman from the Royal Borough stating that more car parking space was needed and David Ricardo was interviewed again. Meridian six o'clock news have also picked up the piece. The Times, Guardian, Express and the Financial Times had articles and the Times article was mentioned on Radio 4's Today programme at 6.15am and 8.15am. There is also a rumour that Newsnight may be interested. Marsh
Meadow has been the scene of filming over the last couple of days, so we should
be seeing more of Cookham on our screens over the next few days.
The
Royal
Windsor website have a special feature supporting those campaigning to
preserve Marsh Meadow.
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After
looking at the site, they then allowed the residents to ask them questions
relevant to the planning application for the car park. They suggested that
a public meeting should be held. It was confirmed by Mike Wellman, one of
Cookham's Parish Councillors, that the Parish Council were planning to hold a
public meeting, possibly in September. The Borough Councillors did not
think that the Planning Application would come up to Borough level until
November. Although several Councillors from Cookham Parish Council
attended the meeting, it was stressed that they were there as individuals and
not as Councillors.
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