Cllr Wayne Smith News Today

A Reading community pub has seen a knock-on effect as road works to replace 100 year-old gas pipes divert vital traffic.

A decision on a plan to build 200 homes on farmland in Berkshire has been postponed over traffic and education concerns.

Bognor Regis Town Council agreed to draw up an equality, diversity and inclusion policy earlier this week.

Hundreds of Wokingham residents have been thanked for playing their part in shaping the future of the borough.

Plans to build a total of 1,649 new homes and a major new road south of Wokingham were decided at a planning committee meeting on Tuesday, March 18.

Buildings placed for brand new school in Wokingham A BRAND new school in Wokingham has just had its first modules lifted into place, making a huge leap in construction progress. The Keys Academy Trust, which is currently still being built in Matthewsgreen, Wokingham, had its first phase of modules placed earlier this month, making up the majority of the primary school building. The 210-place school has had most of its construction take place off-site to cut carbon emissions in the buildin...

Councillors taking part in a Wokingham Borough Council Standards Committee meeting on January 11 in 2021 A meeting of a Wokingham Borough Council committee that reviews misconduct allegations was cut short due to concerns that it was “unconstitutional”. The Standards Committee meeting was stopped after just 23 minutes on Monday, January 11, because three members of the council’s senior decision making group – known as the Executive – were sitting on the committee. The council’s...

"There are industrial estates extremely close to this site which would be more appropriate. "The reason why the existing Headley Road East site was no longer available (their words) was not provided. There was no technical reason provided about the original site. "The last couple of times an application to change a phone mast to cater for 5G was on the St John’s Ambulance site and the single lane bridge on Duffield Road. "In both these cases they used the same site for the new capabil...

PLANS to build up to 15,000 homes in a garden town in Grazeley may soon be scrapped due to concerns about a potential nuclear emergency.