Wokingham Borough Council is running a budget consultation with the public!   Hooray!  After years of Lib Dems asking them to do it, they finally are.   I don’t think they are doing it entirely because we asked or because it is right to involve the public in the decisions that affect them.   It’s more that […]

Last night the council debated what it could do in response to the refugee crisis.   Unanimity broke out, I am pleased to say.  We all agreed that we would welcome our fair share of refugees and do what we could to help them, including by providing information for residents on what they could do. Churches […]

and it isn’t Route B.   Despite all the promises made on behalf of the council by Conservative councillors. It is a version of Route C.  I expect it to be confirmed at the Wokingham Borough Executive meeting on 24h September. A presentation was given to the North Wokingham Forum last week and it has now […]

If you live in Bluebell Meadow or Primrose Lane, SSE will be digging up the road at some point in the next few weeks, starting 7th September, which will mean there will be a brief interruption to the electricity supply.

I have been away from this site for a bit.  Something called an election got in the way of finding time to post.  For my first post-election piece, here are some extracts from the comments I have sent in about the planning application to build a multi-storey car park at Carnival Pool.  The application includes […]

What can you expect to find on the roads locally in the next few months? 1  Showcase roundabout:  the lights will be switched off from today 20th January for 6 weeks while they are upgraded.  The middle of the roundabout will be closed and it will operate like a normal roundabout.   Please have patience with […]

The lights at the Showcase roundabout have partially failed repeatedly this week.  There have been several accidents, but it is not clear whether there is a connection to the lights failing. The decision has been taken – wisely, I think, as I suggested it was a good idea yesterday! – to turn off the lights […]

The formal public consultation on proposals to change the M4 into a “smart motorway” between junctions 3 and 12 has now opened. A “smart motorway” uses the hard shoulder as a lane during peak times, and has variable speed limits. The Highways Agency have lots of information on their website about this scheme here They […]

A heads up for everyone in Winnersh that after Christmas work is going to start on putting a proper cycleway on the Reading Road between Showcase Cinema and the crossroads. Mostly this is good news, but it won’t be entirely perfect, due to constraints in the road width, which mean that compromises have to be […]

Last week I went to the combined North and South Wokingham SDL Forum, and heard about the recently submitted outline planning application for 760 (-ish) houses at Matthews Green Farm.  Having looked in great detail at it today, I have sent a long (well, very long actually) email to the planning officer asking some questions […]