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A Labour councillor up for election this year has serious questions over the effectiveness of a proposed new solar farm in BARKHAM. A plan to convert Barkham Farms into a solar farm with approximately 72,000 panels was submitted by Wokingham Borough Council on its planning portal on Thursday, April 8. The council has argued the solar farm would provide the borough with much needed green energy. However, the effectiveness of the proposed solar farm in cutting carbon emissions has been questioned, along with concerns about the impact the solar farm could have on wildlife. The viability ...

Cllr Murray  said: “The global Carbon Footprint is 51 billion tonnes per year. “What Cllr Croy is essentially saying is that there is no point in Wokingham doing anything on climate change as we represent 1/1000th of 1 per cent of the global carbon footprint. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet in Climate Change. “I wish there was something that we could do that would cut our carbon footprint in half, but there isn’t. The simple fact that Wokingham Labour fail to realise is that we have to lots of little things that add up and add up and add up to big reductions overall.

Cllr Andy Croy (Labour) claims the allegation was made by an unknown Tory activist who is “clogging up the council’s complaints system with spurious complaints against non-Conservative councillors”. He added: “The complaint seemed to based on not understanding that a TV screen is a two-dimensional representation of real life. “Perspective matters – not just in terms of where people are standing but also in terms of decision making. “In both instances, the local Conservative activist has been found wanting. Better luck next time.” Two other unnamed councillors were ac...

Almost 6,000 Wokingham households were claiming universal credit in August 2020 THE number of households claiming universal credit in Wokingham has almost doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic, new government figures show. Between March and August in 2020, the number of households claiming the means-tested benefit rose from 2,995 to 5,973 in Wokingham, which is one of the least deprived areas of the country. And during that six-month period, demand for the three foodbanks in Wokingham was 218 per cent higher than in the same period last year, as they provided food parcels for 1,668 a...