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New play area at City Recreation Ground in Newbury as revamp is completed Play and fitness equipment, a new path and a MUGA have been installed Sarah Bosley  '); A NEW pathway made of recycled rubber now surrounds the refurbished City Recreation Ground in Newbury. Additional play equipment and a new MUGA (multi-use games area), as well as fitness equipment and distance markers have also been added during the revamp. “The major work has been completed now and all the feedback we have had has been really positive,” said Martin Colston, leader of Newbury Town Council, which looks after the ...

Discovered hidden beneath the floorboards in Wickham Heath farmhouse National storytelling week '); Everyone has a story to tell and museums and libraries are bursting with them Highlights of West Berkshire Museum Collection The Stories We Tell WEST Berkshire Museum remains closed to the public for now. However, a new exhibition called The Stories We Tell will be launched when the museum reopens. It will display folklore stories relating to places and people of West Berkshire and will also include objects that have a connection to local folklore events or with a legendary or mythological nar...

New plans to widen Warren Road in Newbury labelled 'outrageous' Councillors criticse plans to widen the road ahead of potential Sandleford development Jonathan Ashby  '); NEWLY-submitted plans to widen Warren Road ahead of the Sandleford Park development have been criticised by town councillors. Donnington New Homes has put in an application to widen the road, four months after withdrawing a similar one. Unlike the old proposal, which was labelled a ‘Trojan Horse’ for the Sandleford Park development, the new proposal explicitly states that the widening of Warren Road “will provide acc...

Bid to pause London Road Industrial Estate project in Newbury is rejected Phased approach to redevelopment will go ahead as planned John Herring CALLS to pause the regeneration of the London Road Industrial Estate (LRIE) have been defeated. Planning consultant Avison Young says up to 280 homes, 3,473 sq m of office space and 5,400 sq m of space for other businesses could be built there. The Liberal Democrats called in the Conservative-run council’s decision, raising concerns about its ability to manage the project, its conflict of interests and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the loc...

Newbury Town Council objects to converting Faraday Road into open recreational space “Sport is clearly a much better use of the ground rather than general recreation" Jonathan Ashby  '); NEWBURY Town Council has objected to plans to convert the disused Faraday Road football ground into a public recreational space. Conservative-run West Berkshire Council (WBC) wants to convert the ground – which has stood empty since Newbury Football Club was evicted in July 2018 – into an open space, while also demolishing the now dilapidated clubhouse at a cost of £191,000. More pay-and-display parki...