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Reading’s transformation from a town known for beer, bulbs and biscuits, to one famous for digital industries is being marked at a new Reading Museum exhibition which opens to the public on Tuesday 18 March 2025.

• Momo House scored 5/5 rating months after being closed due to hygiene breaches
• Close work with Environmental Health officers secures top rating

• More polluting vehicles will pay more for on-street parking and resident permits under new scheme.
• A consultation has been launched inviting residents and visitors to the town to give their views.

• A task and finish group could be created to examine the Council’s cycling and walking plans.
• External stakeholders will be invited to give their opinions on the Council’s active travel strategy.

• Dr Bike returns for 2025, offering free bike maintenance and basic repairs in Broad Street on the first Thursday of the month
• New secure Streetpod cycle parking installed around the town centre as part of a pilot scheme

• Council to partner with external organisation to enforce environmental offences
• Proposal aims to clamp down on littering and fly-tipping in Reading
• Maximum fixed penalty notices to increase for offences

• The Council's Environmental Health team has helped solve the mystery of a nuisance noise in Emmer Green
• Residents' sleep was disturbed by the noise which echoed around the local community 

• £4m major roads programme restarts in Reading today
• Work forms part of wider £8m investment including over 100 residential roads resurfaced before May

• Annual rough sleeping count figure announced
• Count took place during SWEP which affected figures
• Council says 42 is a more accurate representation than the official figure of 57 

• Seven Safer Neighbourhood Forums will take place in the next month
• Residents are invited to talk about issues in their community and potential solutions
• Opportunity to talk to Thames Valley Police and Council officers 

• Improvement works at Reading's iconic Cemetery Arch begin this week
• Structural repairs, a steam clean and repainting of the arch gates all form part of the Council's work   

• 356 new trees planted in Reading in the last three months
• Council remains well on schedule to plant 3,000 new trees by 2030
• Residents can now suggest where trees should be planted next winter