Have Your Say on Crime and Safety in Reading
- Residents encouraged to have their say on crime and safety in Reading
- Annual survey open now - link below
- Responses will help shape future strategies to make Reading safer
Water Fest 2025 Bumper Programme Of Events And Activities
- Water Fest returns for its 36th year on Saturday 28 June 2025, in partnership with the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
Council Successful In Lobbying For Affordable Housing Funding Boost
- Reading one of a number of Council's to have actively campaigned for more housing funding
- £39bn boost for housing over the next ten years announced
- Reading Borough Council aims to use extra funding to build on its affordable housing ambitions
Reading Remembers the Victims of Forbury Gardens Five Years On
- On Friday 20 June - five years after the attacks - Reading will commemorate the innocent victims of Forbury Gardens at a Civic Memorial Service
- Residents are invited to attend the service which begins at 7pm at the memorial stone in Forbury Gardens
Modern New Pay & Display Machines Installed in Reading
- The process of removing old pay & display machines and installing 96 new models around the town is under way
- The new solar-powered machines will accept contactless payment with bank cards and mobile payment apps as well as RingGo
- Cash payments will be available in locations where there has historically been high cash use
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Free bike checks for the summer holidays
- Families can have their bikes checked for free at six different locations around the borough
- Dr Bike team will tune-up cycles and undertake free minor repairs
Have Your Say on Crime and Safety in Reading
- Residents encouraged to have their say on crime and safety in Reading
- Annual survey open now - link below
- Responses will help shape future strategies to make Reading safer
18,000 Electors in Reading Need to Re-apply to Vote by Post
- National changes in law mean existing postal votes are now only valid for three years
- It means postal voters who made their current application before 31 October 2023, have to reapply for their postal vote
- The change affects 18,000 existing postal voters in Reading this year
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