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paulstevens24
- 1 day ago
- 2 min
What now for the Loddon Valley at Hall Farm?
I see in the Reading Chronicle that a “local councillor” has been asking Steve Barclay M.P. “When will the new Royal Berkshire Hospital...
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Pat Phillipps
- May 18
- 4 min
How will the housing numbers change?
This blog has strongly opposed building 4,500 houses in the Loddon Valley countryside area around Hall Farm, and has suggested an...
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paulstevens24
- May 10
- 3 min
After the local elections, what next?
The local elections are over, but the local issues remain. Especially, what is to happen about the local housing plan update that the...
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paulstevens24
- Apr 28
- 2 min
Can someone please explain "eco-savvy"?
"SEVEN Reading schools got eco-savvy at a University of Reading event which challenged students to explore ways of tackling one of...
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Pat Phillipps
- Apr 28
- 4 min
Election prospects-another hung Council?
It's time to look ahead and think about what the future might hold for our rural environment in the Shinfield-Arborfield area. We are...
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paulstevens24
- Apr 21
- 2 min
Reflections on the Liberty of Newland.
The Parish of Arborfield and Newland is 75 years old today. On the 21st March 1948 the first meeting of the new Council elected Brigadier...
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Pat Phillipps
- Apr 16
- 4 min
Reading University and its ‘Environmentally Focused Decisions’
Pat Phillipps At a lavish ceremony at St James’s Palace last year, the University of Reading received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for...
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Pat Phillipps
- Apr 8
- 4 min
Are you an interested party?
In January, WBC Leader Clive Jones heralded a ‘new approach’ to the way the Borough Council draws up its strategy and policies....
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Pat Phillipps
- Mar 26
- 3 min
Changing the draft Local Plan: How Difficult?
Pat Phillipps The SOLVE group tried again earlier in March to have a constructive dialogue with Wokingham LibDem leaders, this time in...
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Pat Phillipps
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Why John Halsall did nothing wrong.
In a recent post, I highlighted former Wokingham Borough Council leader John Halsall’s enthusiastic public support for the Shinfield...
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Pat Phillipps
- Mar 3
- 4 min
Did Borough Council ‘predetermine’ planning application?
On 24th March 2021 Wokingham Borough Council’s Planning Committee granted Shinfield Studios planning permission to set up in Thames...
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paulstevens24
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Sustainable Transport and the Local Plan Update
Let’s look at some facts related to Reading University’s proposal to build 4,500 dwellings on the countryside around Hall Farm. • ...
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Pat Phillipps
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Local plan consultation - what’s happened?
The WBC Local Plan was put out for consultation again after the failure of the Grazeley scheme two years ago. A fair number of sites were...
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paulstevens24
- Feb 10
- 2 min
SOLVE Politics
How many times in recent days, months or even years have you sighed in despair at the parlous state of politics in this country? Would...
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paulstevens24
- Jan 30
- 3 min
Our neglected infrastructure: Schools and surgeries
Over a decade ago, the south of the borough was targeted for massively increased house building. But what infrastructure was put in...
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paulstevens24
- Jan 25
- 5 min
Watch this space!
The Green Belt is an area of land surrounding urban areas in the UK that is protected from development in order to preserve the...
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paulstevens24
- Jan 17
- 4 min
Brownfield not Greenfield, please!
In a recent edition of the Daily Express was an article headlined “Rural villages 'under assault' by greenfield property development”. In...
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Pat Phillipps
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
"Trying to make housing sound popular"
Reading University’s ‘Garden Village’ Pat Phillipps The University of Reading wants to sell off the fields between Shinfield, Arborfield,...
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paulstevens24
- Nov 12, 2022
- 4 min
Bob de Builder wins Greenwashing Award!
No disrespect to the hard work of many at the University of Reading (UoR) in their highly commendable efforts to reduce the carbon...
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paulstevens24
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
How Woke is Wokingham?
Suella Braverman is much in the news, although Matt Hancock seems to be doing his best to knock her off the front pages! Matt is free to...
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