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Council and Reading’s Community and Voluntary Sector to Sign New Three-Year Partnership Agreement

  • New three-year agreement between the Council and the town's voluntary and community sector 
  • Partnership agreement sets out shared expectations, values and ways of working
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Consultation on Simpler and Faster Council Tax Support Scheme Set to Launch

  • A simpler, faster and easier to understand council tax support scheme is being proposed for next year
  • Residents on universal credit would no longer need to fill in forms to claim support as reductions would be automatically awarded
  • Public consultation on the change set to begin later this month
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Major project to create digital records of all traffic restrictions

  • Scheme will transfer records of all waiting, loading, moving traffic and speed restrictions in the borough from paper to a digital map-based platform
  • The transition process will not seek to make any changes to existing traffic restrictions, as correctly installed on the highway