{"id":322701,"date":"2025-08-06T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322701\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:23:11","slug":"princess-kates-sister-follows-her-lead-with-new-childcare-project-at-bucklebury-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322701\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate&#8217;s sister follows her lead with new childcare project at Bucklebury Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1333681_1732705_Untitled-2_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Pippa Middleton\u2019s nursery plans face traffic backlash\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pippa Middleton\u2019s nursery plans face traffic backlash\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pippa Middleton is stepping into the world of early childhood development echoing the passion of her royal sister, the Princess of Wales with a new nursery project at her countryside estate.<\/p>\n<p>The sister of Princess Kate, along with her husband James Matthews, has received official approval to open a nursery at their \u00a31.5 million Bucklebury Farm in Berkshire, despite initial opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The couple faced backlash earlier this year when local highway authorities raised concerns about increased traffic in the area caused by the proposed \u201ccountryside cr\u00e8che.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the Daily Mail\u2019s Richard Eden, the project has now been given the green light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local council officials cited the \u201cstrong social benefits\u201d of the nursery and highlighted the growing shortage of early years education places in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The new development appears closely aligned with the Princess of Wales\u2019s own work in early childhood, a cause she has championed as her \u201clife\u2019s work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, Kate, is leading efforts to raise awareness of the importance of children\u2019s formative years and advocate for a more nurturing society.<\/p>\n<p>Set amid rolling Berkshire fields, the farm famously featured a &#8220;wedding tractor&#8221; in 2010 to celebrate the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The site now boasts a 44-acre deer park, caf\u00e9, children\u2019s play area, glamping pods, and a beloved petting zoo a reported favourite of Prince George during visits to his grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>But the couple\u2019s latest vision for the family friendly estate, a pre-school facility for local children hasn\u2019t gone unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>When the plans were first revealed earlier this year, highway authorities raised red flags over potential traffic disruptions in the quiet village.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roads officials voiced &#8220;significant concerns,&#8221; warning that the nursery could attract an unsustainable volume of vehicles and recommended the proposal be refused.<\/p>\n<p>The concerns were serious enough that a local councillor formally called in the application, prompting a full debate before the planning committee.<\/p>\n<p>Bucklebury Farm, which has welcomed the public since 1992, is located just outside the village of Bucklebury, approximately 4km northeast of Thatcham.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pippa Middleton\u2019s nursery plans face traffic backlash\u00a0 Pippa Middleton is stepping into the world of early childhood development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-322701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114982276758341207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}