On 24th June Scouts from Pinkneys Green joined Theresa May for a tea party with the Speaker of the House of Commons this week. Nicholas Jones, a Scout from Pinkneys Green who got the opportunity to visit the Houses of Parliament said, “It was a great experience to come to Westminster, in London, to visit the Houses of Parliament. Scouting is all about adventure and trying new experiences. Today certainly reflects that!”

The Environment Agency are to rethink their decision to get rid of residential lock keepers in the Thames Valley area, it was announced today. As a result of a meeting last Thursday with Theresa May, who had campaigned against the plans, and the Environment Minister Phil Woolas, the Environment Agency has decided to reconsider its plans, and give the lock keepers a stay of execution until January 2009.

Theresa May has continued to support efforts to prevent development on Badnells Pit. The long-running battle to prevent development has now reached the Planning Inspectorate, following an appeal by Michael Shanly Homes against the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s rejection of the plans to develop 402 residential units on the site. Theresa has now written to the Planning Inspectorate in support of the Royal Borough’s original decision.

Local MPs will meet a government Minster about the removal of resident lock keepers in the Thames Valley, in light of the poor case put forward by the Environment Agency for their removal. Theresa May joined MPs from across the Thames Valley on 1st June to meet officials from the Environment Agency to discuss the proposed removal of resident lock keepers in the Thames Valley, and sale of lock keepers cottages.

Berkshire East PCT has announced that St Marks Hospital in Maidenhead will get a minor injuries unit following consultation on healthcare services in East Berkshire including Maidenhead. Original plans did not include a minor injuries unit for St Mark’s but Theresa May joined forces with the Maidenhead Advertiser to campaign for the unit.

Theresa May has criticised the Environment Agency’s decision to sell lock keepers cottages along the Thames and has joined with other Thames Valley MPs to carry on fighting the decision in parliament. The Environment Agency had been consulting on the future of the resident lock keepers and their cottages earlier this year. However despite protests it has taken the decision to sell off the cottages, leaving local locks unmanned.

Windsor and Maidenhead’s two Members of Parliament, Theresa May and Adam Afriyie, have today written to the leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Councillor David Burbage, to commend the council’s motion regarding building on gardens. The council motion, which was passed on 22nd April 2008, seeks to return powers over local planning decisions to locally elected councillors and follows a long-running campaign by Conservatives against Labour’s “garden grab”.

On 7th May Theresa May will be joining other female Conservative MPs to run the ‘Race for Life’ in Battersea Park. As well as Theresa, ‘Team Tory’ will include, among others, Conservative Party Chairman Caroline Spelman MP and Shadow Minister to the Treasury Justine Greening MP.

Theresa May has welcomed the decision by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to install an alley gate in Headington Close in Maidenhead. Following complaints by local residents of Murrin Road and Headington Road, the Council had previously decided to install an alley gate in Murrin Road but ruled against doing the same in Headington Close, arguing that there were not enough reports of crime to justify it.

Theresa May has today raised her concerns about how much local people in the Maidenhead area are being consulted by Berkshire East Primary Care Trust and Berkshire Healthcare Trust about plans to make significant changes to local healthcare services.