The charitable trust responsible for managing a park that has become overgrown and occupied by a homeless camp could be closed by Slough Borough Council, new plans suggest.

Stabmonk Park in Chalvey has been allowed to become overgrown since the council took charge in 2020. Now new plans say the council could close the trust altogether as there’s little hope that it will generate income.

Plans say: “There is little scope for income generation and hence a recommendation to explore dissolving the Trust.”

The park – which lies in between Seymour Road and the old Montem Leisure Centre car park in Chalvey – had been run by residents in the Chalvey Millenium Green Trust since 2000.

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But the few volunteers couldn’t keep up the work and eventually handed it over to the council in 2020.

The land has since been allowed to become overgrown and in the past few months been occupied by a homeless camp.

The trust – which is wholly owned and controlled by the council – has also failed to submit its annual accounts to the charity commission. The accounts are now more than 450 days overdue.

Slough Borough Council’s trustees committee is set to discuss the future of the park at a meeting on Wednesday, July 31. Council officers are recommending that it agrees to investigate closing the Chalvey Memorial Trust down.

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The plans do not say how Stabmonk park will be managed after this. In a recent statement to the Observer the council said it would clear waste and overgrowth and install a new fence.

It is also set to receive £100,000 towards maintaining the park as part of a planning permission agreement with Bellway Homes for a housing protect at the former Montem Leisure Centre site.