04:56PM, Monday 10 November 2025
Bray Film Studios
Parish councillors have raised traffic concerns over an application to create more parking next to the Amazon-owned Bray Film Studios.
The applicant, Farmglade Ltd, is seeking permission to use a piece of land in Water Oakley greenbelt near Bray Film Studios for open storage and additional car parking.
Amazon Studios owns Bray Studios, where the TV Lord of the Rings spin-off Rings of Power and the spy-thriller Citadel were previously filmed.
Nexus Planning submitted a compliancy report as part of the application and said the temporary development would support future productions at the studios.
A similar application for the site was refused by the Royal Borough in September this year over concerns around flooding and a new access route that was proposed for the site.
To address this, the resubmitted application no longer proposes a new access route for vehicles and a flood risk assessment was submitted.
The assessment said the proposed car parking area is entirely within flood zone 1 – the lowest risk of flooding.
If the Royal Borough approves the current proposal, the car parking and storage area will be open from February next year to February 2027.
The site would be open from 8am to 6pm from Monday to Friday and occasionally on Saturday from 8am to 1pm.
But in a planning committee meeting on Monday, Bray Parish Council discussed the application and recommended it for refusal to the Royal Borough.
Councillor Gurch Singh (Oakley Green and Fifield) said: “The concern I have in relation to the site is the amount of vehicles that are going to be parked up there and the access and the traffic [that will be generated].”
The application said the site areas is ‘large enough for no more than about 375 cars’ but, even on filming days, there is ‘little likelihood of this level of use actually occurring’.
HGVs will also travel to the site during the construction period to deliver the storage containers.
But to control traffic, vehicles travelling to the studios will have to use a specified route.
Cllr Singh also said the proposals would lead to the inappropriate development of the greenbelt.
Cllr Louvaine Kneen (Holyport) agreed and said: “[The car park hardstanding] is going to ruin open green fields, it’ll never be the same again.”
The compliancy report said any structure, works or machinery that is brought to the site will be removed ‘as soon as practicable’ after the temporary filming period.
This is one of the conditions the developer needs to meet under permitted development rights (PDRs), which are a set of national requirements that need to be met before an application is approved.
Enter reference 25/02720 into the Royal Borough’s planning portal to view the application.
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