Protect Stag Meadow — Community Help Against Overdevelopment (CHAOS)
We fully support the growth of Windsor & Eton Football Club and its role in promoting men’s, women’s and youth football.
However, replacing the natural grass pitch at Stag Meadow with a floodlit 3G plastic surface for seven-day commercial use, alongside car-park restrictions, poses serious risks to public access, the local environment and residents’ wellbeing.

What this proposal means in practice
~69,000 sq ft of green space bulldozed and replaced with a hard-to-recycle synthetic surface—now subject to microplastics phase-out measures in parts of Europe—in a sensitive park setting.
Night-time floodlights and extended hours (up to ~14 hours/day, beyond 10pm, 7 days/week) → light spill, disturbance and wildlife impacts.
Car-park access reduced for Great Park visitors and cemetery users, with scope for further restrictions.
Traffic & safety: an estimated ~280 extra car movements/day via the narrow access off St Leonards Road (“pinch point”), plus added noise from intensified use.
A fundamental intensification of use that changes the character of the site.
Recent events around the barrier—and how it was communicated—have raised understandable concerns about transparency and the ultimate scope of changes. Decisions affecting public land and a valued gateway to Windsor Great Park must be open, evidence-led and consultative.

We ask that
The Crown Estate and RBWM pause progression pending full public consultation and publication of traffic, lighting, ecology and flood-risk assessments.
Robust environmental safeguards (microplastics containment/maintenance, drainage and runoff controls, lighting curfews and spill limits, noise limits).

We’ve updated our group name/description to reflect the wider development now emerging and the expected planning submission(s).
Learn more and see the evidence: www.protectstagmeadow.co.uk

Let’s stop the CHAOS before it begins — and keep Stag Meadow open, accessible and in balance with nature and neighbours.