Brooklands Radio Interview
August 2023
Christine Ricketts, Principal of Brooklands College and John Richards, Land & Planning Director at Cala Homes sat down with Barry Richards on Brooklands Radio to discuss our plans to deliver £45 million of investments into Brooklands College.
Included within the plans to redevelop the College site are:
- Opening up 12 hectares of woodland which includes a newly accessible ‘Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace’ (SANG) for Elmbridge, open to the local community.
- Improving the management of the green space to enhance and diversify local habitats and ecology – the proposals deliver a 14.2% biodiversity habitats net gain.
- Extending the Discovery Trail through the site linking Brooklands Mansion to Brooklands Museum, providing walking and cycling links across the site and utilising the pair of bridges that cross the railway line. This introduces a new strategic north-south link between Weybridge town centre and Brooklands Museum, via the historic College grounds.
- Renewing the site’s significant listed mansion building, returning it to its historic residential use and securing its maintenance and upkeep for the future. We will reintroduce the Mansion’s landscaped and terraced gardens as well as securing the long term future of the Obelisk within the Woodland.
We’d like to thank Barry Richards and Brooklands Radio for having us and we look forward to visiting again soon.
You can read the full transcript of our interview on Brooklands Radio below.
