News

• 12-week public consultation launches today
• Ambition to increase the number of people walking and cycling
• Action plan includes creating new paths and reinstating historic rights of way that have been lost

• £530,000 investment to provide exciting new equipment
• New play area set to open in the summer 2023

• Hamilton School's new building 'highly commended' in local authority and community buildings national awards
• New building on Bulmershe Road was delivered by the Council and replaced Phoenix College 

• Reading again achieves CDP ‘A’ List accolade for bold leadership on climate change
• Just 122 towns/cities worldwide and 19 in the UK receive top score on climate action in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) ‘gold standard’ of environmental reporting
• Out of more than 1,002 entries worldwide, only 12% received an A score

• A range of local businesses and other organisations have already donated items, with a range to suit a range of tastes and budgets – in time for Christmas
• Proceeds will benefit the Mayor’s chosen charities for 2021-23: Parenting Special Children, ACRE, and Duchess of Kent Hospice (Sue Ryder Care)

• Thousands of Cost of Living vouchers to be distributed to eligible residents by the Council before Christmas
• Families eligible for pupil premium free school meals, care leavers and older people among the recipients 
• Council vouchers are to help with soaring heating and food costs

• Reading’s overall carbon footprint cut is the 4^th largest reduction of 374 UK local authority areas.
• Reading Borough Council has now cut its own carbon footprint by 71.3% in just 13 years.
• Much more to do; residents, communities, businesses, organisations and council will need to re-double efforts to reach net zero by 2030.

• 12 roads being resurfaced in the next month takes the total to 467 in three years
• That £9m investment is being followed by a further £8m to continue making improvements to Reading's roads
• Over 350 trees are being planted in conjunction with the road improvements programme

• East Reading’s new community pool filled with 325,000 litres of water over a five-day period.
• Palmer Park Leisure Centre and Stadium on schedule to open in December.

Reading schools are set to save hundreds of thousands of pounds in soaring energy costs next year and more than 2,584 tonnes of carbon for years to come, thanks to a successful school decarbonisation project led by the Council.

• The first new station in Reading since Reading West opened on 1 July 1906
• Now due to open in early 2023

• Ambition to increase the number of people walking and cycling
• Action plan includes creating new paths and reinstating historic rights of way that have been lost